On Monday 06 March 2006 13:21, Jaap-Jan Boor wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:08 +0100, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "When preparing a flash partition for JFFS2, it is recommended to put > > cleanmarkers to the erased blocks. > > This might be done my means of "-j" option of the "flash_eraseall" MTD > > utility. Otherwise, JFFS2 will re-erase the blocks > > which contain all 0xFF and have no cleanmarker. This is an unneeded > > wasting of time." > > > > Source : http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/jffs2.html > > > > does this may be relevant ? > > This is correct, however flash_eraseall does also (as it's > name suggests, erase all flash blocks, which takes > some time on NOR flash. If you 'know' the flash is erased, > it's not needed. > I used flash_eraseall to write the cleanmarkers, but without > erasing blocks (and called that utility cleanmark)
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Is "cleanmark" an open-source tool? Would you share it? Greetings, -- David Jander
