From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16U4or-0002sK-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:46:57 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <3C513E7B.6010808@smartbridges.com> References: <3C513E7B.6010808@smartbridges.com> <20020125103941.26958.qmail@web8101.in.yahoo.com> <4181.1011956000@redhat.com> To: Nikhil Goel Cc: Ramya Ravichandran , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Cf Card vs DiskOnChip Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:57:55 +0000 Message-ID: <12290.1011959875@redhat.com> 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: nikhil@smartbridges.com said: > Isn't that similar to the implementation of JFFS? So a DiskOnChip > running on the CVS based driver with JFFS should suffice for > wear-levelling! if I am missing some piece here, what should I rtfm? You could use JFFS on the DiskOnChip. You can't use JFFS2 at the moment because it doesn't properly support NAND flash - there are a few extra constraints that JFFS2 doesn't meet. It's not too hard to fix though - various people have indicated an interest in working on it. -- dwmw2