Re: No surprise on memory

2008-12-22 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
), then you are probably willing to buy one later. Soldered down SD, however may be an intermediate point; may fewer wires than a conventional chip. There is eMMC for purposes like this, even. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Hi, I've just subscribed to the list and do not have older mails in my mailbox. Found this in the archives: John Watlington said: I started a loop of reading two files and comparing them, then writing two 10MB files, reading them back (and comparing them), then deleting them. Repeat

Re: File systems usage patterns and NAND lifetime

2008-10-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
. managed flash: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_raw_vs_ftl -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Need help with making flash partitions

2008-05-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
tried to put my developer key to the USB stick - does not help as well. I use B4 prototype and security is disabled AFAIU. Any suggestion? Thanks. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
physically sits at the same place, but gets indexed, and UBIFS picks other logical eraseblocks for the next journal. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
ext Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Artem Bityutskiy wrote: but unfortunately have not got feedback, and I suspect one of the reasons is that it is too difficult to boot UBIFS on XO. It would be great to have a demo OS image using UBIFS. I can't help for the partitioning thing, but if you

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-17 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
John Watlington wrote: I know what a write-back buffer is... But I would never characterize a filesystem's write throughput as the peak bandwidth when writing into the buffer. (That's a marketing trick.) We neither. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
do not have to have one huge / partition which takes whole flash - you may have different volume for different stuff. This makes SW update easier - e.g., you do not have to backup /home. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) ___ Devel

Re: multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
David Woodhouse wrote: http://git.infradead.org/?p=openfirmware.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0b5a7b0c OpenFirmware boots from the partition named 'boot' in the RedBoot partition table. The rest are yours to play with as you see fit. Thanks David, I'll take a look at this. -- Best Regards, Artem

multiple MTD partitions

2007-12-13 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
guess this has nothing to do with the bootloader, right? Thanks. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel