Re: [Yaffs] Initial mount time and production programming

On Saturday 09 October 2010 01:01:17 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> How have people here dealt with yaffs's long-ish initial mount time after
> production programming?
>
> AFAIK, the yaffs image given to an industrial flash programmer cannot
> contain a checkpoint, as checkpoints aren't able to deal with changing bad
> block positions and numbers.
>
> This means of course that the first system boot is going to be quite
> lengthy (>1 minute on our 256Mb flash). We are getting a few complaints
> from the production test people about this. How have other people here
> dealt with this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Sven

Sven,

How much of that 1 minute is taken up by yaffs mounting? I would expect that
the a 256MiB mount would take less than that.

One thing I am going to work on soon is a block summary. This should
significantly speed up mounting with no checkpoint.

-- Charles