[Yaffs-archive] Re: YAFFS Support added for page caching.

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Author: Charles Manning
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To: yaffs
Subject: [Yaffs-archive] Re: YAFFS Support added for page caching.
I don't know what this will do to robustness and I'm interested to know what
people experience.

IMHO: If you want robustness (eg killing power without doing a umount), stick
with the uncached configuration.

-- Charles


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:54, Charles Manning wrote:
> Hi Yaffsers
>
> Files checked in: yaffs_fs.c, Makefile.
>
> I have added support for generic read/write which uses Linux's disk
> caching. This should (??has the potential to??) improve performance on
> unaligned writes.
>
> This feature is compile-time selectable (CONFIG_YAFFS_GENERIC_RW). If you
> comment out the define in the Makefile you get direct read/write. You get
> to play & choose.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> -- Charles
>
>
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