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From: Thomas Gleixner <gleixner@autronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul <paul@oz.net>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:12:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203201912.g2KJCZn20682@thomas.tec.autronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9616.1016645986@redhat.com>

On Mittwoch, 20. März 2002 18:39 , David Woodhouse wrote:
> gleixner@autronix.de said:
> > That's one side of the problem. The other is, that you can use only
> > JFFS2 on  this devices at the moment . There is no other filesystem,
> > which handles the  nand stuff correct.  If you want to use the
> > original SMC DOS-FAT filesystem, which is used by  MP3-Players,
> > Digicams etc., you have to hack a new filesystem driver.
>
> SmartMedia is just another translation layer which pretends to be a block
> device (cf. previous rants). You normally put FAT on that block device,
> just as you do with NFTL and FTL - but you don't have to.
Yep, but the SmartMedia FAT is different to MSDOS-FAT in some points.

-- 
Thomas
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Thomas Gleixner <gleixner@autronix.de>
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-03-20 18:57 UTC|newest]

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2002-03-20 10:26 ` Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested Thomas Gleixner
2002-03-20 17:39   ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-20 19:12     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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