Re: JFFS2 mounting very slow.

David Woodhouse <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:36:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.jffs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:07 -0400, David Ho wrote:
> Is there a way to predict the mount time based on the content, usage,
> partition size?
> How does the 2.6 JFFS2 differ from 2.4?

I rewrote the mount code. We do it a lot differently -- we defer as much
as possible to later, doing only the bare minimum at mount time.

> Does it give me a constant mount time?  or can I guarantee that JFFS2 will
> mount in less than N seconds?

On NOR flash, it should be about an order of magnitude faster than 2.4
to mount.

Try it. You might like it.

-- 
dwmw2



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