Lets move to JFFS2 then! Thanks Gary!
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Gary Wicker <> wrote:
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>
> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> I switched from YAFFS to JFFS2 on my TS-7250 projects (2.4 kernel)
> because I had problems with YAFFS. The worst was that it would mark
> blocks as bad for no reason and there seems to be no way to unmark
> them. After having a couple of my TS-7250 boards become useless
> because of too many bad blocks, I gave up and switched to JFFS2. Note
> that the stock 2.4 kernel from Technologic didn't fully support JFFS2
> at that time (not sure if it does now plus they've since moved to 2.6)
> so I had to backport some JFFS2 stuff from another kernel branch I
> picked up somewhere else. In any case I've been using JFFS2 since
> without incident or problems. Hope this info helps.
>
> Gary Wicker
> qhorus.com
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Gonzalo A. de la Vega
> <> wrote:
>> Has anybody tried this? I'm thinking about using JFFS2 mainly because:
>> 1) According to what I read on the YAFFS [1] site JFFS2 is more efficient
>> in small partitions. I'm essentially not writing to the flash so the YAFFS
>> garbage collection advantage is of no use.
>> 2) Mainstream kernel 2.6 comes with JFFS2 support.
>> 3) I'm gessing 2.4 and 2.6 can read the same JFFS2 partition (as one would
>> normally expect) contrary to what happens with YAFFS... but this is just a
>> guess... or a hunch if you will.
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] C. F. Johnson, Comparison between YAFFS (YAFFS2) and JFFS2,
>> http://www.yaffs.net/comparison-yaffs-vs-jffs
>>
>>
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