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Re: RE: AT91 patches


Doug Fraser wrote:
Thomas,

When you say 'variable sector size' support, are
you talking about erase procedure only or actual
information storage? I am not up to speed on JFFS2,
but previous FFS I have used aggregated the smaller
blocks in terms of large block groups, and treated
the block grouping as a single large block.

The only special treatment was that during an erase,
the multiple small blocks were individually erased
to effectively clear the virtual large block.

Mostly just curious. I was looking at JFFS2 for a
home project, but work and family life have gotten
a bit nuts lately, so the hobby projects have to wait.
For something like JFFS2 smaller sector sizes don't give you anything so that makes sense.

But at a driver level it's good to support for reasons like efficient use for configuration data (e.g. Redboot's FIS dir and fconfig data).

Jifl
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