"Timing issue when we use SPANSION 8MB Flash"

David Vrabel dvrabel at arcom.com
Mon Oct 10 04:20:34 EDT 2005


Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Vitaly Wool wrote:
>>>
>>> am I right that it's a NOR flash? What's the reason for using JFFS2
>>> on it then?
>>
>> Err, why shouldnt he use JFFS2 on NOR ? Is there a better suited file
>> system which can handle NOR FLASH?
>
> cramfs ;)

When you can write to cramfs let me know!

In case you didn't know, JFFS2 (and its predecessor, JFFS) was actually
originally designed for NOR flash -- NAND support was added later.

David Vrabel
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