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From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Cram FS on NAND - How to do this?
Date: 11 Jun 2003 02:10:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1055322613.886.2.camel@russ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055322260.2097.13.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 02:04, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:58, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> > That is a valid approach.
> > 
> > I take it that you mean a new MTD block device over NAND that
> > automatically skips over bad blocks and presents an error free
> > block interface for use by read only filesystems.
> 
> Basically, yes. You can then either require the use of a special
> userspace tool to program the file system images onto the flash, or
> perhaps you could implement it as a writable block device, in the
> expectation that people don't _actually_ use it in write mode in
> production.

you could simplify this by making it so that writes can only occur
starting at 0 sequentially onward (I think this is doable by not
implementing seek)

-- 
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11  8:43 Cram FS on NAND - How to do this? Pantelis Antoniou
2003-06-11  8:51 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11  8:58   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-06-11  9:04     ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11  9:10       ` Russ Dill [this message]
2003-06-11  9:12         ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-11  9:01 ` Jasmine Strong
2003-06-11  9:54   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-06-11 10:24     ` angainor
2003-06-11 19:22     ` Russ Dill
2003-06-12  8:22       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-06-12  9:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2003-06-12  8:15   ` Pantelis Antoniou
2003-06-12 23:13 ` Charles Manning
2003-06-13 12:18   ` Jasmine Strong
2003-06-13 16:30     ` Brian J. Fox
2003-06-13 16:33       ` Jasmine Strong
2003-06-13 16:45         ` Brian J. Fox

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