[U-Boot] Booting kernel from NAND flash on AT91SAM9 custom board using fsload

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Joakim Tjernlund,

In message <OFA7DEB7BE.7D093C64-ONC1257863.0027BEFD-C1257863.00281994 at transmode.se> you wrote:
>
> JFFS2 deprecated? It is very stable and works well for NOR based filesystems.

Yes, we consider it deprecated, and we do not use it in any new
projects / products.

> Do you use UBIFS for NOR as well these days?

Yes, we do.  [And yes, we know about the problems it has in certain
configurations, but 1) these are pretty rare these days and 2) we are
working on fixes.]

> > JFFS2 has always been slow, especially when mounting larger file
> > systems.  This is one of the resons we recommend UBIFS instead.
> 
> The u-boot impl. is a bad version of the one in linux. The u-boot
> version should be rewritten/fixed to match current Linux.

Patches welcome.

Nevertheless, the Linux mount times for JFFS2 are still slower than
UBIFS times, aren't they?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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