[ECOS] RE: AT91 patches

[Jonathan Larmour]

Doug Fraser wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> When you say 'variable sector size' support, are
> you talking about erase procedure only or actual
> information storage? I am not up to speed on JFFS2,
> but previous FFS I have used aggregated the smaller
> blocks in terms of large block groups, and treated
> the block grouping as a single large block.
> 
> The only special treatment was that during an erase,
> the multiple small blocks were individually erased
> to effectively clear the virtual large block.
> 
> Mostly just curious. I was looking at JFFS2 for a
> home project, but work and family life have gotten
> a bit nuts lately, so the hobby projects have to wait.

For something like JFFS2 smaller sector sizes don't give you anything so 
that makes sense.

But at a driver level it's good to support for reasons like efficient use 
for configuration data (e.g. Redboot's FIS dir and fconfig data).

Jifl
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