> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Quiney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 24 July 2008 15:45
> To: Jon Povey; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: YAFFS2 with checkpointing on DM355

> I tried mounting the NAND partition with yaffs2 and it seems 
> to take around 11-15 seconds to mount regardless of content. 
> The MX27 core is an ARM926EJ-S running at 400MHz (199 BogoMIPS).
> 
> When unmounting - it printed 'save exit: isCheckpointed 0' on 
> the console - whatever that means.

Hmm, that looks like it's not creating a checkpoint, for whatever
reason. When I tried the recent YAFFS2 code it said isCheckpointed 1 on
unmount (but failed to mount again).

I have read that checkpointing can reduce several-second mount times
down to the order of a second.. When I was googling around at some
point, I don't have a source handy for that.

> Are there any YEFFS related settings you want me to change & 
> try again?

The kernel config looked OK to me, I don't know enough about YAFFS2 to
know why it might not have been checkpointing properly, if that was the
case.

For want of a better, and quicker, idea at the moment I am chopping down
my root fs as much as possible and will try shrinking the mtd partition
too, and see what that does for my boot times. If I can get it down to
around 3s that will be acceptable.. There are some gains to be had in
optimising the startup scripts too.

Commercial pressures are nudging me that way for an initial release:
later on I can take the time to fix YAFFS2 on DM355 and release a
firmware update.

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