On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:38 , Dave Hylands wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
>> Linux uses JFFS2, which is very good at avoiding this problem:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2
>>
>> However, if you're writing enough data, you can eventually run  
>> into it,
>> even with something like JFFS2.
>
> JFFS2 is only used for the directly accessible flash, i.e. the 4Mb or
> 16 Mb of flash that's part of the gumstix. The flash stored on the MMC
> card is written using a FAT file system by default, although you could
> change it to use another (but you can't use JFFS2 on an MMC card).

What if you make a huge file on the MMC card, and put a jffs2 into it  
via loopback?

- Bert -