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-<H1>YAFFS Todo as at <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME SDNUM="5129;2057;DD/MM/YYYY">08/06/2002</SDFIELD></H1>
+<H1>YAFFS Todo as at <SDFIELD TYPE=DATETIME SDNUM="5129;2057;DD/MM/YYYY">21/08/2002</SDFIELD></H1>
<H3>Stuff not yet done</H3>
<OL>
<LI><P>Directory locking during directory walk.</P>
- <LI><P>Other locking....</P>
- <LI><P>Test disk full condition. Might not be being handled
- correctly.</P>
- <LI><P>Add write memory mapping. We probably need this to support
+ <LI><P>Other locking.... investigate what is needed.</P>
+ <LI><P>Add write memory mapping. We probably need this to support
loop mounting.</P>
+ <LI><P>At scan time, check that the file size in the ObjectHeader
+ matches the filesize of the scanned blocks.</P>
+</OL>
+<H3>Tools to be done</H3>
+<OL>
+ <LI><P>Dumper and analyser to work off the mtd.</P>
</OL>
<H3>Recently done with no known problems (ie. probably needs
significant testing)</H3>
mot such a good thing to do with newer NANDs which do not like this
sort of thing.</P>
</OL>
+<OL>
+ <LI><P>File pruning is done in reverse order so that if power is
+ lost part-way through, the file does not have any holes.</P>
+</OL>
+<OL>
+ <LI><P>mkyaffsimage. Tool to make a yaffs image from a directory (in
+ the spirit of mkcramfs).</P>
+ <LI><P>Added support for special inodes (pipes, character &
+ block devices, sockets).</P>
+ <LI><P>Added generic read/write support to use page caching.
+ Selectable by configuration of CONFIG_YAFFS_USE_GENERIC_RW.</P>
+</OL>
<H3>Done, but currently known to be broken</H3>
<OL>
- <P>nothing.</P>
+ <LI><P>If you fill yaffs and then try to copy more files into it,
+ you end up with a bunch of objxxx files when you do an ls.</P>
</OL>
<H3>Longer term stuff to do</H3>
<OL>
<LI><P>Discuss improved NAND page interface with mtd group. This has
- actually started.</P>
- <LI><P>Pull out all YAFFS_OK and YAFFS_FAIL style errors and return
+ actually started. Luc van Oostenryck is also looking at an
+ alternative layer to mtd.</P>
+ <LI><P>Pull out all YAFFS_OK and YAFFS_FAIL style errors and return
with -ENOMEM style error messages.</P>
</OL>
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