[U-Boot-Users] jffs2

[Robert Schwebel]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:36:05PM +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> I've heard that in the MTD cvs some things have been improved and now
> it scans faster or in the background or something like that.

Wasn't that done with kernel threads? Doesn't work in u-boot. 

> What I would: I would make one JFFS2 /boot parition, with little more
> than the kernel. And one JFFS2 / parition, with the rest. So the
> bootloader has only to scan for valid blocks in the little partition,
> but that's probably ok. And Linux now has some improved
> scanning/heuristics/whatever that scales better to large partitions.

The problem is that we want to have only one image which has to be
flashed during a software update, to minimize problems. 

Robert
-- 
 Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de
 Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry
   Braunschweiger Str. 79,  31134 Hildesheim, Germany
   Handelsregister:  Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686
    Phone: +49-5121-28619-0 |  Fax: +49-5121-28619-4