From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.fastq.com ([204.62.193.66]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 19D4LA-0000Gw-Re for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 16:26:49 +0100 Received: from aquaman (foobar@russ.gothicfury.com [65.39.81.227]) h46FR1V35077 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 08:27:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from Russ.Dill@asu.edu) From: Russ Dill To: Eric DEJONC In-Reply-To: <3EB7AA75.7B0DACF5@thales-e-transactions.com> References: <3EB7A6AC.ED381D4C@thales-e-transactions.com> <20030506122442.GD15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3EB7AA75.7B0DACF5@thales-e-transactions.com> Message-Id: <1052234804.2996.3.camel@gobbles> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 06 May 2003 08:26:45 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Subject: Re: reverse mkfs.jffs2 Reply-To: Russ.Dill@asu.edu List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 05:28, Eric DEJONC wrote: > Well, thank you, I did not think to loopback, thats a great idea. I'm gonna > test. the only little problem is that the 10M jffs2 file should take a long > time to be sent on the board via a serial port (the only one I can use). > I don't think you caught on to what mtdram is. mtdram lets you create an mtdblock device on you *HOST* system. you don't need to send it to your board via serial. > > > I was wondering if someone had already done a prog that reverse > > > mkfs.jffs2? > > > > > > I'd like to open a jffs2 ramdisk made by someone else, but I don't have > > > enough space on my flash disk. So I would like to open it, but from the > > > host machine that doesn't handle jffs2. > > > > Use one of mtdram or mtdblock and use that. You can make a block > > device from your image with loopback. Should be enough, I guess. > > -- Russ Dill