[ECOS] Re: jffs2 / eCos

[Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:20, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 08:48, Bob Koninckx wrote:
> > > We should just fix jffs2_read_inode_range() to handle reads which don't
> > > start at the beginning of a node. It's not hard.
> > 
> > I removed the above mentioned check and now it _appears_ to work
> > correctly. Is this all that needs to be done ?
> 
> Can you show me the patch or resulting code? 


Just commented the lines containing the test out. Anyway, if you want a
patch to see it for yourself... :-)


> 
> > Are there similar issues when writing to the filesys ?
> 
> No, writing should be fine -- but you really do want to try to ensure
> that you don't get writes split up into 256-byte chunks, since that'll
> waste space on the file system (till it gets GC'd and merged).


Certainly won't be before the week-end. You don't have by any chance any
(standard) test cases, do you ? Any suggestions to seriously test it
(apart from creating a file that is larger than 256 bytes and checking
with the debugger that no "holes" are left)

Thanks for looking after this so far anyway,

Bob

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