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Re: Stress testing JFFS2
- From: Dinesh Kumar <mljangir at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: linux-mtd at lists dot infradead dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:52:57 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Stress testing JFFS2
> Every operation that changes the contents of the
FLASH
> (even deleting files!)is performed by writing new
> nodes to the FLASH. Every such node is represented
in
> RAM by a struct jffs2_raw_node_ref. The memory
> occupied by these structs is never freed unless the
> file system is unmounted or garbage collection takes
> place.
I am newbie to JFFS2. What is the reason behind not
freeing jffs2_raw_node_ref from RAM (even after they
have been used)?
Regards
Dinesh
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