> I have minix/ext2fs running on top a 'flashdisk' on
> an ep7211 based system. Writes to the flash have to
> follow an erase of the corresponding sector. (Most
> of the flash sectors are 128K). Filesystem syncs
These are probably not good file systems to run on flash. AXIS have a 2.0
log based flash file system that might be a lot better.
> How do I get fsync to pass me down big chunks of
> data at a time, instead of 1024 bytes?
You don't. You can however keep a couple of 64K buffers and write them to
flash when you need a third buffer or after a timeout.
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