On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 18:17 -0700, Siddharth Choudhuri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there is a mkyaffs version for YAFFS2 on large block NAND flash. I want to burn a YAFFS2 image
> (derived out of mkyaffs2image) onto a NAND flash partition.
>
> I tried using the nandwrite (mkyaffs2image -> erase flash -> nandwrite -a -o /dev/mtdN
> yaffs2.img), but every time I mount/umount, I get a series of "gc prioritised messages" for every
> block that the image was written to. However, if I erase the flash and copy the files, the same
> messages does not appear. Are these messages a notification or error ?
>
I met this problems before. And got some information from the List.
Currently, you can use this method to do some test:
- erase flash
- mount -t yaffs /dev/mtdblockN /mnt
- cp the files (you want to store in the NAND flash) to the /mnt
- umount /mnt
Then the files should be in the flash now.
- Bryan Wu
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