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On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 00:31 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> That is awesome and I'm not finding any documentation on it...  Ah:
> 
>   http://wiki.maemo.org/Modifying_the_root_image#Block_device_emulating_an_MTD_device
> 
> Wow that's awkward.  Let's see, that says...
> 
>   mknod /tmp/mtdblock0 b 31 0
>   modprobe loop
>   losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs.jffs2
>   modprobe mtdblock
>   modprobe block2mtd
>   # Note the ,128KiB is needed (on 2.6.26 at least) to set the
>   # eraseblock  size.
>   echo "/dev/loop0,128KiB" > /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
>   modprobe jffs2
>   mount -t jffs2 /tmp/mtdblock0 /media/jffs2

You should not need mtdblock in modern kernels, it is legacy. You should
be abole to mount jffs2 on top of mtd0 with

mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /media/jffs2

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)