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Re: jffs2 questions
- From: John Dallaway <john at dallaway dot org dot uk>
- To: Stanislav Meduna <stano at meduna dot org>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:22:11 +0100
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: jffs2 questions
- References: <4A5D953B.4010408@meduna.org>
Hi Stano
Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> I am trying to use a JFFS2 filesystem in a serial dataflash
> device. I encountered the jffs2_open hanging mysteriously,
> so I started to investigate.
Are you aware that the version of JFFS2 ported to eCos has issues with
DataFlash? Ref:
http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2005-01/msg00100.html
Patches are welcome. A complete re-import of JFFS2 for eCos would be
even more welcome.
> 4) CDL for CYGOPT_FS_JFFS2_GSTHREAD states
> Leave this off till it's been implemented. And don't
> implement it till icache locking has been made thread-safe.
It looks like the CDL description string is obsolete. According to the
ChangeLog, garbage collection thread support was added 2004-11-14.
John Dallaway
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