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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2006-04-11 19:09:16 -0400
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+.TH MKFS.JFFS2 1
+.\" $Id: mkfs.jffs2.1,v 1.6 2004/11/26 14:30:15 havasi Exp $
+.SH NAME
+mkfs.jffs2 \- Create a JFFS2 file system image from directory
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B mkfs.jffs2
+[
+.B -p,--pad[=SIZE]
+]
+[
+.B -r,-d,--root
+.I directory
+]
+[
+.B -s,--pagesize=SIZE
+]
+[
+.B -e,--eraseblock=SIZE
+]
+[
+.B -c,--cleanmarker=SIZE
+]
+[
+.B -n,--no-cleanmarkers
+]
+[
+.B -o,--output
+.I image.jffs2
+]
+[
+.B -l,--little-endian
+]
+[
+.B -b,--big-endian
+]
+[
+.B -D,--devtable=FILE
+]
+[
+.B -f,--faketime
+]
+[
+.B -q,--squash
+]
+[
+.B -U,--squash-uids
+]
+[
+.B -P,--squash-perms
+]
+[
+.B -m,--compression-mode=MODE
+]
+[
+.B -x,--disable-compressor=NAME
+]
+[
+.B -X,--enable-compressor=NAME
+]
+[
+.B -y,--compressor-priority=PRIORITY:NAME
+]
+[
+.B -L,--list-compressors
+]
+[
+.B -t,--test-compression
+]
+[
+.B -h,--help
+]
+[
+.B -v,--verbose
+]
+[
+.B -V,--version
+]
+[
+.B -i,--incremental
+.I image.jffs2
+]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The program
+.B mkfs.jffs2
+creates a JFFS2 (Second Journalling Flash File System) file system
+image and writes the resulting image to the file specified by the
+.B -o
+option or by default to the standard output, unless the standard
+output is a terminal device in which case mkfs.jffs2 will abort.
+
+The file system image is created using the files and directories
+contained in the directory specified by the option
+.B -r
+or the present directory, if the
+.B -r
+option is not specified.
+
+Each block of the files to be placed into the file system image
+are compressed using one of the avaiable compressors depending
+on the selected compression mode.
+
+File systems are created with the same endianness as the host,
+unless the
+.B -b
+or
+.B -l
+options are specified. JFFS2 driver in the 2.4 Linux kernel only
+supported images having the same endianness as the CPU. As of 2.5.48,
+the kernel can be changed with a #define to accept images of the
+non-native endianness. Full bi-endian support in the kernel is not
+planned.
+
+It is unlikely that JFFS2 images are useful except in conjuction
+with the MTD (Memory Technology Device) drivers in the Linux
+kernel, since the JFFS2 file system driver in the kernel requires
+MTD devices.
+.SH OPTIONS
+Options that take SIZE arguments can be specified as either
+decimal (e.g., 65536), octal (0200000), or hexidecimal (0x1000).
+.TP
+.B -p, --pad[=SIZE]
+Pad output to SIZE bytes with 0xFF. If SIZE is not specified,
+the output is padded to the end of the final erase block.
+.TP
+.B -r, -d, --root=DIR
+Build file system from directory DIR. The default is the current
+directory.
+.TP
+.B -s, --pagesize=SIZE
+Use page size SIZE. The default is 4 KiB. This size is the
+maximum size of a data node.
+.TP
+.B -e, --eraseblock=SIZE
+Use erase block size SIZE. The default is 64 KiB. If you use a erase
+block size different than the erase block size of the target MTD
+device, JFFS2 may not perform optimally. If the SIZE specified is
+below 4096, the units are assumed to be KiB.
+.TP
+.B -c, --cleanmarker=SIZE
+Write \'CLEANMARKER\' nodes with the size specified. It is not
+normally appropriate to specify a size other than the default 12
+bytes.
+.TP
+.B -n, --no-cleanmarkers
+Do not write \'CLEANMARKER\' nodes to the beginning of each erase
+block. This option can be useful for creating JFFS2 images for
+use on NAND flash, and for creating images which are to be used
+on a variety of hardware with differing eraseblock sizes.
+.TP
+.B -o, --output=FILE
+Write JFFS2 image to file FILE. Default is the standard output.
+.TP
+.B -l, --little-endian
+Create a little-endian JFFS2 image. Default is to make an image
+with the same endianness as the host.
+.TP
+.B -b, --big-endian
+Create a big-endian JFFS2 image. Default is to make an image
+with the same endianness as the host.
+.TP
+.B -D, --devtable=FILE
+Use the named FILE as a device table file, for including devices and
+changing permissions in the created image when the user does not have
+appropriate permissions to create them on the file system used as
+source.
+.TP
+.B -f, --faketime
+Change all file timestamps to \'0\' for regression testing.
+.TP
+.B -q, --squash
+Squash permissions and owners, making all files be owned by root and
+removing write permission for \'group\' and \'other\'.
+.TP
+.B -U, --squash-uids
+Squash owners making all files be owned by root.
+.TP
+.B -P, --squash-perms
+Squash permissions, removing write permission for \'group\' and \'other\'.
+.TP
+.B -m, --compression-mode=MODE
+Set the default compression mode. The default mode is
+.B priority
+which tries the compressors in a predefinied order and chooses the first
+successful one. The alternatives are:
+.B none
+(mkfs will not compress) and
+.B size
+(mkfs will try all compressor and chooses the one which have the smallest result).
+.TP
+.B -x, --disable-compressor=NAME
+Disable a compressor. Use
+.B -L
+to see the list of the avaiable compressors and their default states.
+.TP
+.B -X, --enable-compressor=NAME
+Enable a compressor. Use
+.B -L
+to see the list of the avaiable compressors and their default states.
+.TP
+.B -y, --compressor-priority=PRIORITY:NAME
+Set the priority of a compressor. Use
+.B -L
+to see the list of the avaiable compressors and their default priority.
+Priorities are used by priority compression mode.
+.TP
+.B -L, --list-compressors
+Show the list of the avaiable compressors and their states.
+.TP
+.B -t, --test-compression
+Call decompress after every compress - and compare the result with the original data -, and
+some other check.
+.TP
+.B -h, --help
+Display help text.
+.TP
+.B -v, --verbose
+Verbose operation.
+.TP
+.B -V, --version
+Display version information.
+.TP
+.B -i, --incremental=FILE
+Generate an appendage image for FILE. If FILE is written to flash and flash
+is appended with the output, then it seems as if it was one thing.
+
+.SH BUGS
+JFFS2 limits device major and minor numbers to 8 bits each. Some
+consider this a bug.
+
+.B mkfs.jffs2
+does not properly handle hard links in the input directory structure.
+Currently, hard linked files will be expanded to multiple identical
+files in the output image.
+.SH AUTHORS
+David Woodhouse
+.br
+Manual page written by David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR mkfs (8),
+.BR mkfs.jffs (1),
+.BR fakeroot (1)