[ECOS] jffs2 garbage collect

[Jürgen Lambrecht]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:07:58PM +0200, J?rgen Lambrecht wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for your fast reply Andrew.
>>
>>The problem I have is that the user will first delete files from flash to 
>>make place, and then tftp files to flash. But the place only really 
>>becomes available after a garbage collect (or after reboot).
> 
> 
> The garbage collection code is also run when the filesystem is 'full',
> ie it cannot allocate space for new data. I will run the garbage
> collection code and then try the allocation again. This is why all the
> comments say that the garbage collection they is only nice to have,
> not required.
>  
> 
>>To delete files, we use a "magic" deletion file. At the end of processing 
>>that file, I want to add garbage collection.
>>- I could do this by starting the GC thread, and then stopping it again.
>>- Or maybe better, by calling myself jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c).
>>- Or I guess I could also unmount jffs2 and mount it again.
> 
> 
> Only the last option is safe. The others potentially could cause
> filesystem corruption.
> 
> What is wrong with having garbage in your filesystem anyway? 
Because the garbage represents free space that is not available. Our 
customer wants to update the files in flash twice a year. This is 
potentialy all files. In worst case, all data must first be deleted and 
then new data uploaded.

Thanks for your replies,
Juergen
> 
>      Andrew
> 

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