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cc: Barone Tonino <tonino.barone@tecneitalia.com>
Subject: Re: Please help, nftl question
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Hi,
which is difference between nftlcore and nftlmount ?
What kind of functions should SFTL export so that a filesystem can be put
on?

regards

Luca


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Luca Contini" <luca.contini@mediaenabling.com>
Cc: "Barone Tonino" <tonino.barone@tecneitalia.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Please help, nftl question


> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 10:01, Luca Contini wrote:
> > Hi,
> > can You please check whether my diagram is correct or not?
>
> Your diagram looks correct except that you've drawn arrows on it.
>
> Those arrows represent only _one_ of the many ways in which it can be
> used. If writing the SmartMedia 'SFTL' code, please don't do it while
> thinking about FAT or about any specific hardware driver. It should work
> with _any_ file system or hardware.
>
> > Can you please suggest me some paper to read about fat on smartmedia and
> > linux?
>
> Ignore FAT for the moment; it's not relevant.
>
> See http://www.ssfdc.or.jp/english/common/f_spec_down.htm
>
> Ignore the 'Logical Format Specifications' and look at the 'Physical
> Format Specifications'.
>
> --
> dwmw2
>
>
>