On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 12:35 -0800, Patrick O'Grady wrote:
> From: Patrick O'Grady <[email protected]>
>
> Permit the user to specify the erase page size as a parameter.
> This solves two problems:
>
> - phram can access images made by mkfs.jffs2. mkfs.jffs2 won't
> create images with erase sizes less than 8KiB; many architectures
> define PAGE_SIZE as 4KiB.
>
> - Allows more effective use of small capacity devices. JFFS2
> needs somewhere between 2 and 5 empty pages for garbage collection;
> and for an NVRAM part with only 32KiB of space, a smaller erase page
> allows much better utilization in applications where garbage collection
> is important.
Unfortunately, the patch is line-wrapped and not applicable to the
latest kernel tree. Would you please refresh and re-send properly?
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy