add: spiffs issues documentation
Issues documented:
- SPIFFS is unable to utilize 100% of partition space
- Long time between write function calls
- Memory leaks when deleting file
JIRA
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- Currently, SPIFFS does not support directories, it produces a flat structure. If SPIFFS is mounted under ``/spiffs``, then creating a file with the path ``/spiffs/tmp/myfile.txt`` will create a file called ``/tmp/myfile.txt`` in SPIFFS, instead of ``myfile.txt`` in the directory ``/spiffs/tmp``.
- It is not a real-time stack. One write operation might take much longer than another.
- For now, it does not detect or handle bad blocks.
+ - SPIFFS is able to reliably utilize only around 75% of assigned partition space.
+ - When the filesystem is running out of space, the garbage collector is trying to find free space by scanning the filesystem multiple times, which can take up to a few seconds per write function call, depending on required space.
+ - Deleting files does not always delete the whole file, which leaves unusable sections throughout the filesystem.
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