[Yaffs] Getting the most out of YAFFS

[Kent Ryhorchuk]

Re: two partitions

--- Peter Barada <Peter.B at LogicPD.com> wrote:


> 
> Break your flash up into at least two partitions, a
> root, and the rest
> of the system.  The root can be smaller and hold the
> root filesystem so
> the system boots up pretty quick, and as it gets
> going, mount the other
> partition in the background so you can get other
> servives, etc running
> without waiting to wade over the bulk of the
> flash...
> 

Yup, that has been considered and will probably
happen. The kernel and root fs are already stored in a
small NOR flash. Some applications and resources go in
the nand which will be "starting" while the yaffs
partition containing the bulk of the data is being
mounted. However, the "dead-time" between application
start and fs mount stinks and it would be much nicer
just to have everything mounted in a couple of
seconds.



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