System (.efs)

These settings control the format and size of your flash filesystem image. Unless otherwise specified, the values are in bytes, but you can use the suffixes K, M, or G (e.g. 800, 16K, 2M, 4G). The IDE immediately rejects invalid entries.

Block Size
The size of the blocks on your flash.
Filesystem Type
The type of flash filesystem to create. Use the default (ffs3) unless you specifically need compatibility with older software that requires ffs2 format images.
Filter
A filter you can use with this image, called deflate , compresses files for flash filesystems. (The mkefs utility calls deflate.) Use any valid command-line argument, such as deflateĀ -t1.
Maximum Image Size
The limit for the size of the generated image. If the image exceeds the maximum size, mkefs fails and reports an error in the System Builder Console view. The default setting of 4 GB accommodates most images.
Minimum Image Size
The minimum size of the embedded filesystem. If the size of the filesystem is less than this size after all the specified files have been added, then the filesystem is padded to the required size. The default is 0 (i.e. no padding occurs).
Spare Blocks
The number of spare blocks to be used by the embedded filesystem. If you want the embedded filesystem to be able to reclaim the space taken up by deleted files, set the number of spare blocks to 1 or more. The default is 1.