but the file_size in fiel_obj_hdr is a integer which can as many as 2^32 which means 4GB,how to present 32GB?

ps:if possible,yaffs can be used in a cluster of nand flash that has totally 2^32 * chunk_size?

thansk a lot,

Ezio

On 2011-12-13 08:57, Laurie van Someren wrote:
> Andre,
> In a response in October 2008 Charles Manning said:-
> "
> > In YAFFS the file system partition can be many Gbytes. We have had
> some people using it with 6 GBytes or more.
> As for individual file sizes, YAFFS should be able to handle individual
> files bigger than 2Gbytes but I have not tested this. If the current
> code does not currently handle this then it should be a relatively
> simple matter to correct that.
> YAFFS stores things in the granularity of "chunks" and with current
> settings that limits the file size to approx 16 m illion chunks per
> file. In a system where the "chunk size" is 2k bytes that makes a
> theoretical file size of 32Gbytes.
> "
> I expect he will add if he has further comments now.
>
> LvS
>
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