mount costs too long

[Vitaly Wool]

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:48 +0800, Aubrey wrote:
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>>I got a clue from YAFFS mailing list, this is a known issue on 2.6.18 kernels.
>>It is caused by the MTD layer rework and corresponding yaffs-mtd layer
>>modifications. Namely, an additional translation had to be implemented
>>for OOB area for 512b page chips.
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>Is it possible to describe this in more details? And why YAFFS people do
>not fix this?
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This is more a yaffs1 problem rather than MTD's. The thing is that
yaffs1 blindly presumes SmartMedia OOB layout which is untrue for most
flashes, so an additional translation was implemented within yaffs1.

Vitaly