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From: Michael Thompson <mickey@berkeley.innomedia.com>
To: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: How to use MTD
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:54:31 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200003010754.XAA00389@berkeley.innomedia.com> (raw)



I'd really like to start experimenting with MTD, but I'm afraid I've only
got half a clue about how to use it.

Here's what I'd like to do:

	1) Create an ext2 filesystem on an mtd block device and mount
	   it read-write from linux. This is to experiment with MTD
	   without the flash.
	2) Create an ext2 filesystem on a set of flash devices from an
	   embedded system running linux. The underlying flash devices
	   are Intel's StrataFlash; they support CFI and JEDEC.

To accomplish (1), I thought I should:

	# insmod mtd
	# insmod slram
	# insmod mtdblock
	# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/mtdblock0
but mkfs says:
        mke2fs 1.15.6, 13-Aug-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
        /dev/mtdblock0: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up        superblock

Can someone please explain the fundamentals?

Thanks!

-Michael Thompson
mickey@berkeley.innomedia.com


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