ts-7000
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ts-7000] TS7390, reduce MTDBLOCK3 size.

To:
Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS7390, reduce MTDBLOCK3 size.
From: Petr Štetiar <>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:34:21 +0100
Dunge2 <> [2010-02-09 14:23:30]:

> Hi!

Hi,

> Problem is boot time, it goes like this: 1. Boot linux (about 2-3sec) 2.
> Mount mtdblock3 (with error checking since it got a hard shutdown), about
> 25sec.  3. Launch our application, about 5sec.

Maybe you should give a try UBIFS, it should be faster, that 25s mount should
turn into 1-2s.

> Since we only use under 200mb of the 512mb mtdblock3 size, I though we could
> save some mount time by reducing it's size. Do you know if it's possible?
> This does not seems to be a simple "re-partiton" it because the yaffs2
> filesystem always use the whole block size, and it seem to be defined by the
> board kernel modules or something. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, you can do that with mtdparts commandline option or you can modify it in
kernel NAND driver directly.

> Oh, and why does TS still make us use that oabi filesystem and don't offer
> something up-to-date and working yet? Been a few years already..

Maybe it's like with wine, the older, the better :P

-- ynezz


------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
     
    

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

Disclaimer: Neither Andrew Taylor nor the University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering take any responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU