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Re: mounting large JFFS2 partition.
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Benny Chen <bennyc at rtunet dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:39:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] mounting large JFFS2 partition.
- References: <1125444140.4793.196.camel@Vigor4>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:22:20AM +1000, Benny Chen wrote:
> Hi there,
> It seems that when mounting a large jffs2 partition (5M) the system
> seems to take a long time about 30 seconds. This also happens when we do
> a directory listing of the mount point for the first time. Seems to be
> due to reading the inodes of the fs.
>
> Is this delay part of the overheads of using JFFS2?
Yes, JFFS2 is known to take a long time to start with big partitions.
> Also, when mounting large JFFS2 partition, nothing else seems to be
> running. The jffs2 routines seems to have the processor all for itself.
This is strange. When do you mount the partition? I assume it is after
the schedular is started. What priority is the thread mounting the
filesystem and the thread running the watchdog?
Andrew
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