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From: "Björn Eriksson" <mdeans@algonet.se>
To: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem for battery-buffered SRAM
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:08:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011023110859.A13613@algonet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD43008.3A7C27D7@esd-electronics.com>

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 04:41:12PM +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> I have to setup an embedded Linux box that uses 1MB of battery buffered
> SRAM to store nonvolatile data.
> This memory is directly mapped into ma addressspace and needs no magic
> things to read or write to it.
> 
> What might be the best choice for a filesystem for this memory and is it
> possible to setup file access with MTD.
> With other words: Is MTD able to access normal RAM devices (no FLASH,
> but SRAM) ?

 Use mtdram with CONFIG_MTDRAM_ABS_POS. It's (the config option) there
for exactly this purpose.


-- 
//Björnen.

      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-23  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-22 14:41 filesystem for battery-buffered SRAM Matthias Fuchs
2001-10-23  9:08 ` Björn Eriksson [this message]

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