On 9/13/06, goog long <cecolong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the insight explanation. I did the same test on JFFS2 and the
> result is much worse than YAFFS2. The first write and erase was a few
> seconds slower than YAFFS2, but the second one takes up to 6 to 8 minutes,
> meaning JFFS2 gc is much more complex and slower than YAFFS2.

Yep, this is a known drawback of JFFS2, not easy to overcome though:
it's to work on NOR flashes as well, including old ones with long
erase times, so the garbage collection is working as separate
thread(s) there.

Vitaly