Swap on flash
Mitch Bradley
wmb at laptop.org
Tue Jan 6 19:56:31 EST 2009
There is a "swaponflash" mtd driver. See
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.0/index.html#0681
Trying to swap on top of JFFS2 is a bad fit. Swapping has several
characteristics that make the problem much easier that the general
filesystem-on-NAND problem. In particular:
a) The CPU page size is a multiple of the NAND page size.
b) There's no need for a persistent index across reboots
Such a driver accessing a dedicated NAND partition ought to work just fine.
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