On Tuesday 02 March 2010 19:36:30 Shivdas Gujare wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am very new to mtd & yaffs and working on boot-time optimisation and
> found that yaffs check-pointing helps to mount yaffs2 very quickly.
> I tried it, and was able to save almost 4sec for 128MB partitioned nand.
>
> Since everything looks very good If I use yaffs check-pointing feature
> but have a doubt, are there any disadvantage of using check-pointing
> by default in final product?
>
> I understood that, check-pointing only disables boot time nand block
> scanning & marking it bad if found, and takes "system snapshot" while
> using "umount /dev/mtdblockN" which it use in next boot.
> So, If I decided to use "check-pointing" with "umount" while powering
> off the device in final product, are there going to be any problems
> I will face avoiding block scanning?

This is how the checkpointing is intended to be used and there should be no 
problems from doing this.

-- CHarles