[maemo-developers] jffs2 on mmc?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Tim Tisdall wrote:
>   I heard that the jffs2 had support for sdcards (I'm assuming that
> means it doesn't do wear-leveling and leaves it to the
> microcontroller), but that it still checks every bit on the card
> before loading the OS.  However, I like the idea that JFFS2 has
> journaling which ext2 does not and probably does it in a way that's
> not requiring too many extra writes (like ext3).  Maybe I'll try it
> with a reasonably sized partition and hope it doesn't take too long to
> boot.

JFFS2 is not really suitable for larger file systems.

If you'd use it on full 8GB memory card, it would probably eat
all memory than the device has (JFFS2 keeps whole disk structure
in memory, and the structures for open files take more RAM than
for non-open ones).


	- Eero