On 04/02/2012 03:55 AM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On 03/30/2012 06:33 PM, Tim Bird wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The CE Workgroup currently has a contractor working on >> UBI checkpointing, which is a feature addition to UBIFS >> to make it more scalable (at mount time) for large flash >> parts. The code for this is written, but we would like >> to do some more extensive testing of it, especially with >> really large flash. >> >> Does anyone know of an embedded system, with mainline >> support, that has more than 2 Gigabyes of NAND flash? >> If so, please let me know. >> >> Thanks - any info or pointers you have would be appreciated. > > What about using the block2mtd driver for this purpose, instead of real > nand flash? > > This way, flash storage could be as big as needed for testing.
This is for performance comparisons. I'm not familiar with block2mtd, but I presume it would interject some performance artifacts related to block-based access into the benchmarking. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
