From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Chris AtLee <catlee@canada.com>
Cc: Linux MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: JFFS & MTDBLOCK
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:37:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14188.1024414656@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024414167.9366.9.camel@geb>
catlee@canada.com said:
> I'm not sure that I understand what this means...
> Does it mean that for production units where you want the filesystem
> to be writeable you should use JFFS on a non-MTDBLOCK device?
> Or does it mean that using a filesystem other than JFFS for writing to
> a MTDBLOCK device is probably a bad idea?
It means the latter. When you mount JFFS/JFFS2 on an mtdblock device, it
doesn't actually _use_ the read/modify/erase/writeback algorithm described
-- or indeed use the mtdblock driver at all -- it just uses the minor
number of the mtdblock device you specified to get a handle on the real
underlying MTD device.
Using any _other_ file system than JFFS/JFFS2 on the mtdblock device other
than in read-only mode is a bad idea.
--
dwmw2
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2002-06-18 15:29 JFFS & MTDBLOCK Chris AtLee
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