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RE: [ts-7000] formatting (?) onboard flash filesystem

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Subject: RE: [ts-7000] formatting (?) onboard flash filesystem
From: "Eddie Dawydiuk" <>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:03:42 -0700 (MST)
Hello,

> I have noticed  a 40 second delay in mounting this filesystem.
>
> The delay occurs either when mounting as /
> or when an NFS mount is used for / and /dev/mtdblock/1 is
> mounted to /mnt/mtdblock1.
>
> Is this a normal delay or do I have more troubleshooting ahead?


Yes this is normal. "When a YAFFS system mounts a NAND flash device it 
must scan the spare areas of every block to check for valid data, whereby 
it can then reconstitute the tree data structures."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAFFS

//Eddie

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From:   Behalf Of
> Eddie Dawydiuk
>  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:41 AM
>  To: 
>  Subject: Re: [ts-7000] formatting (?) onboard flash filesystem
>
>
>  Hello,
>
>  > I would like to go back to a jffs2 filesystem on the flash
>  > and figure I overwrote some interesting data when I created
>  > the ext2 filesystem.
>  >
>  > flash_eraseall doesn't see /dev/mtdblock/1 as a flash device
>  > it can erase.  Attempts to use dd to write the flash image
>  > doesn't accomplish anything either.
>
>  You don't need to use the flash_eraseall utility when using
>  NOR flash. You can use dd to write out the default image.
>  Here is some information on where to get the current JFFS2
>  image.
>
>  http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/WhereToGetTheLatestImages.
>
>  See page 9 of the TS-Arm Developers manual for information on how
>  to write out the default image.
>
>  http://www.embeddedarm.com/Manuals/TS_ARM_L.PDF
>
>  //Eddie
>
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