Flash

The flash module provides block device for flash memory. Use require('flash') to access this module.

Do not use this class without knowing about flash allocation map. Writing and erasing blocks in flash memory may broke your code, files, storage items in flash.

Class: Flash

An instance of Flash represents a block device.

new Flash(base, count)

• base <number> Starting block number.
• count <number> Number of blocks.

Returns a block device instance.

flash.read(block, buffer[, offset])

• block <number> Block number to read.
• buffer <Uint8Array> Buffer where the read data to be stored.
• offset <number> Offset of buffer.

Read the block data and store in buffer.

flash.write(block, buffer[, offset])

• block <number> Block number to write.
• buffer <Uint8Array> Data to write.
• offset <number> Offset of buffer.

Write the buffer data at the block.

flash.ioctl(op[, arg])

• op <number> I/O operation.
• arg <number> Argument of the op.

Perform an I/O operation.

I/O operations are below:

• 1 : Initialize the device (not supported)
• 2 : Shutdown the device (not supported)
• 3 : Synchronize the device (not supported)
• 4 : Returns the total number of blocks
• 5 : Returns the number of bytes in a block
• 6 : Erase a block (arg is the block number to erase)
• 7 : Returns the flash page size