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Re: Re: Simple flash filesystem?
- To: "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Simple flash filesystem?
- From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:44:21 -0500
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3A805EF4.3D21C830@tevero.no><981465384.28425.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com><3A805EF4.3D21C830@tevero.no>
>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?
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.
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