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Published inNov 2017

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ESP8266

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Catalin Batrinu

Constantin Tambrea

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SPIFFS

SPI Flash File System (SPIFFS) is a filesystem created for small embedded systems. SPIFFS has many advantages since it allows you to create files and simulate directories.

The following are the features of SPIFFS:

Designed for low RAM use on microcontrollers
Uses statically sized RAM buffers
Posix-like api: open, close, read, write, seek, stat, and so on
It can run on any NOR flash, not only the SPI flash. Multiple SPIFFS configurations can run on the same target - and even on the same SPI flash device
Implements static wear levelling
Built-in filesystem consistency checks
Highly configurable and can be adapted for a variety of flash types

I highly encourage you to use SPIFFS in your designs to store data in NOR flash since it is very easy to read and write data, is like a *nix filesystem.

Filesystem size depends on the flash chip size. Depending on the board that is selected in the IDE, you can select different sizes for SPIFFS. For example, in case if you have selected the NodeMcu v1.0 as...

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Published in: Nov 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787282629

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Catalin Batrinu

Catalin Batrinu graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology. He has been working as a software developer in telecommunications for the past 16 years. He has worked with old protocols and the latest network protocols and technologies, so he has experienced all transformations in the telecommunication industry. He has implemented many telecommunications protocols, from access adaptations and backbone switches to high-capacity, carrier-grade switches on various hardware platforms from Wintegra and Broadcom. Internet of Things came as a natural evolution for him and now he collaborates with different companies to construct the world of tomorrow that will make our life more comfortable and secure. Using the ESP8266, he has prototyped devices such as irrigation controllers, smart sockets, window shutters, Digital Addressable Lighting Controls, and environment controls, all of them controlled directly from a mobile application over the cloud. An MQTT broker with bridging and a WebSockets server was even developed for the ESP8266. Soon, all those devices will be part of our daily life, so we will all enjoy their functionality.
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