On 29/03/2011 3:05 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Nicholas Kinar, > > In message<4d92428e.6030...@usask.ca> you wrote: >> (1) Does replacing jffs2_1pass.c with jffs2_nand_1pass.c in the fs/jffs2 >> directory influence the robustness of the fsload code? > JFFS2 is more or less deprecated these days. FOr new projects, we > recommend to use UBI/ UBIFS instead. > >> (2) Does it take a long time to load the Linux kernel from a JFFS2 >> filesystem on NAND flash using the fsload command (i.e. > JFFS2 has always been slow, especially when mounting larger file > systems. This is one of the resons we recommend UBIFS instead. > >> or has this been cleaned up in the current u-boot-2010.09 code? > v2010.09 is in no way "current". The latest release available at this > moment is v2010.12, and v2011.03 is a mere few days aways. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk >
Thanks for your response, Wolfgang - I will switch the file system to UBI/UBIFS, and then post back what I've done. I've been looking in the include/configs/sheevaplug.h directory, and I think that this small embedded computer is now using UBIFS as the NAND flash file system. So changing the configs for my embedded system should be reasonably straightforward. I would assume that the "fsload" command will also work with UBIFS as well. In my custom system, At91Bootstrap is situated on SPI Dataflash. The At91Bootstrap loads U-Boot from the same Dataflash. Then, I would like U-Boot to load the Linux kernel from the UBI file system on a large 2 GByte NAND flash. This should be much better than using JFFS2 on the large NAND flash. Nicholas _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
