From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from repulse.teligenthost.com ([207.155.249.3]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15F0WJ-0006pr-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:37:15 +0100 From: "Bao C. Ha" To: "'Simon Evans'" , Subject: RE: Block device as MTD Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:41:14 -0700 Message-ID: <01e501c0fe88$ba42a0f0$326c020a@SENSORIA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ >