> -----Original Message-----
> From: yaffs-bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk 
> [mailto:yaffs-bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of 
> ian@brightstareng.com
> Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2006 9:26 a.m.
> To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk; Boris Deschenes
> Subject: Re: [Yaffs] yaffs corruption.. almost gone
> 
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:53, Boris Deschenes wrote:
> > I made progress today, now I'm at the point where yaffs 
> could be used 
> > as a boot RO filesystem.  I can mount it, write to it (I'll 
> get yaffs 
> > chunk not erased messages but the files are good even after 
> > remounting).  But I have to mount read-only otherwise all 
> hell breaks 
> > loose.
> 
> FYI: It is generally a good idea IMHO, that when mounting 
> flash filesystems read-write one should use the 'noatime' 
> option, so read operations don't generate inode updates 
> (media writes).

Yes, a good general policy, but yaffs ignores atime anyway. 

-- Charles