From: "Bao C. Ha" <baoha@sensoria.com>
To: "'Simon Evans'" <spse@secret.org.uk>, <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: Block device as MTD
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:41:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01e501c0fe88$ba42a0f0$326c020a@SENSORIA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15EzJQ-0008Px-00@spoinky.secret.org.uk>
Can I mount a partition like /dev/hda3 or perhaps
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3?
Bao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org
> [mailto:linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Simon Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Block device as MTD
>
>
>
> I have checked this into CVS now. The following files are affected:
>
> drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c - the driver itself
> drivers/mtd/devices/Config.in
> drivers/mtd/devices/Makefile
> patches/Configure.help
>
> Please consider this alpha software. It uses raw/io to the
> disk (not via
> the buffer cache). Basic usage is:
>
> modprobe blkmtd device=/dev/floppy/0 etc
>
> If you are going to put a JFFS2 fs on the device, please note that
> it can take quite a while to mount because JFFS2 scans every block.
> A 96MB CF card took about 2 minutes.
>
> On the plus side, if you have more memory then the size of the device,
> you should find the whole device in the page cache ;)
>
> cheers
> si
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-26 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-26 10:33 Block device as MTD Simon Evans
2001-06-26 18:22 ` Tim Riker
2001-06-26 20:19 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-26 21:41 ` Bao C. Ha [this message]
2001-06-26 20:58 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-26 23:12 ` kira brown
2001-06-26 23:32 ` Bao C. Ha
2001-06-27 6:49 ` Felix Radensky
2001-06-27 22:03 ` Simon Evans
2001-06-27 23:41 ` Bill Roman
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2001-06-28 7:39 Michel Stempin
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