I was thinking that this morning on my drive in, I am going to play with the
chunk size again and see what I can come up with.

The default is 2048 correct?.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:32:48 Peter Pilley wrote:
> > Everyone on list.
> >
> > I was doing a comparison today of mkyaffs2image and nanddump and noted
> that
> > a dump with nanddump had chunk sizes upto 4096 whereas the mkyaffs2image
> > was only 2048.
> >
> > the dump was of the /system mount with mkyaffs2image and the
> /dev/mtd/mtd5
> > (system) for nanddump.
> >
> > I am confused can anyone help out here
>
> yaffs2 can use pretty much any chunk size you want and people regularly use
> 2k, 4k or other sizes (not necessarily 2^n).
>
> mkyaffs2image is set up to generate 2k chunks. If you want to change the
> NAND
> geometry then hack as you please.
>
> -- Charles
>
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