From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: Eric DEJONC <eric.dejonc@thales-e-transactions.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Subject: Re: reverse mkfs.jffs2
Date: 06 May 2003 08:26:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052234804.2996.3.camel@gobbles> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB7AA75.7B0DACF5@thales-e-transactions.com>
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 05:28, Eric DEJONC wrote:
> Well, thank you, I did not think to loopback, thats a great idea. I'm gonna
> test. the only little problem is that the 10M jffs2 file should take a long
> time to be sent on the board via a serial port (the only one I can use).
>
I don't think you caught on to what mtdram is. mtdram lets you create an
mtdblock device on you *HOST* system. you don't need to send it to your
board via serial.
> > > I was wondering if someone had already done a prog that reverse
> > > mkfs.jffs2?
> > >
> > > I'd like to open a jffs2 ramdisk made by someone else, but I don't have
> > > enough space on my flash disk. So I would like to open it, but from the
> > > host machine that doesn't handle jffs2.
> >
> > Use one of mtdram or mtdblock and use that. You can make a block
> > device from your image with loopback. Should be enough, I guess.
> >
--
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 12:12 reverse mkfs.jffs2 Eric DEJONC
2003-05-06 12:24 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 12:28 ` Eric DEJONC
2003-05-06 15:26 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2003-05-06 12:49 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-06 14:44 ` Eric DEJONC
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