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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