-menu "FAT FS Wear Levelling Settings"
+menu "Wear Levelling"
choice WL_SECTOR_SIZE
- bool "FAT FS sector size"
- default WL_SECTOR_SIZE_FAT
+ bool "Wear Levelling library sector size"
+ default WL_SECTOR_SIZE
help
- Specify the FAT sector size.
+ Sector size used by wear levelling library.
You can set default sector size or size that will
fit to the flash device sector size.
-config WL_SECTOR_SIZE_FAT
+ With sector size set to 4096 bytes, wear levelling library is more
+ efficient. However if FAT filesystem is used on top of wear levelling
+ library, it will need more temporary storage: 4096 bytes for each
+ mounted filesystem and 4096 bytes for each opened file.
+
+ With sector size set to 512 bytes, wear levelling library will perform
+ more operations with flash memory, but less RAM will be used by FAT
+ filesystem library (512 bytes for the filesystem and 512 bytes for each
+ file opened).
+
+config WL_SECTOR_SIZE_512
bool "512"
-config WL_SECTOR_SIZE_FLASH
+config WL_SECTOR_SIZE_4096
bool "4096"
endchoice
config WL_SECTOR_SIZE
int
- default 512 if WL_SECTOR_SIZE_FAT
- default 4096 if WL_SECTOR_SIZE_FLASH
+ default 512 if WL_SECTOR_SIZE_512
+ default 4096 if WL_SECTOR_SIZE_4096
choice WL_SECTOR_MODE
bool "Sector store mode"
+ depends on WL_SECTOR_SIZE_512
default WL_SECTOR_MODE_PERF
help
- Specify the mode to store data into the flash.
+ Specify the mode to store data into flash:
+
+ - In Performance mode a data will be stored to the RAM and then
+ stored back to the flash. Compared to the Safety mode, this operation is
+ faster, but if power will be lost when erase sector operation is in
+ progress, then the data from complete flash device sector will be lost.
+
+ - In Safety mode data from complete flash device sector will be read from
+ flash, modified, and then stored back to flash.
+ Compared to the Performance mode, this operation is slower, but if
+ power is lost during erase sector operation, then the data from full
+ flash device sector will not be lost.
config WL_SECTOR_MODE_PERF
bool "Perfomance"
- help
- In Performance mode a data will be stored to the RAM and then
- stored back to the flash. Compare to the Safety mode, this operation
- faster, but if by the erase sector operation power will be off, the
- data from complete flash device sector will be lost.
config WL_SECTOR_MODE_SAFE
bool "Safety"
- help
- In Safety mode a data from complete flash device sector will be stored to the flash and then
- stored back to the flash. Compare to the Performance mode, this operation
- slower, but if by the erase sector operation power will be off, the
- data of the full flash device sector will not be lost.
endchoice
config WL_SECTOR_MODE