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Re: Simple flash filesystem?
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards writes:
> >way too big/complex when my filesystem isn't going to be more than a few
> >hundred KBytes and will be rarely written to. For now, I'm going to try
>
> Aha!! Do you have a "few hundred KBytes" of free RAM?
I should.
> You could get the best of all possible worlds by loading the FS into RAM,
> and allowing random R/W as convenient, then committing the entire thing
> back to flash when your device is idle.
Yup.
That's probably the simplest solution for a small filesystem. Burns can
happen in the background without interrupting read access to the RAM
version of the files.
Of course once marketing gets hold of the web pages, I may end up with
several megabytes of real-audio and dancing GIFs. Then half of my
assumptions go out the window. :)
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Grant Edwards
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