From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
To: "Grant Edwards" <grante@visi.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Simple flash filesystem?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:54:00 -0000
Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010206154319.00b19870@larwe.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00084.html

>way too big/complex when my filesystem isn't going to be more than a few
>hundred KBytes and will be rarely written to.  For now, I'm going to try

Aha!! Do you have a "few hundred KBytes" of free RAM?

You could get the best of all possible worlds by loading the FS into RAM, 
and allowing random R/W as convenient, then committing the entire thing 
back to flash when your device is idle.


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