From: Studying MTD <studying_mtd@yahoo.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: why MTD model ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:29:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020614042945.11949.qmail@web21504.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30266.1024004092@redhat.com>
--- David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> studying_mtd@yahoo.com said:
> > Can somehow we treat(emulate) memory device as a
> block device and
> > treat memory device like a hard disk ?
>
> Not directly, no. There are drivers which do so --
> and present a flash
> device as a block device using translation layers of
> various complexity,
you mean, it is possible.
> but that is not a true representation of the
> capabilities of the underlying
> device.
>
what you mean by "true representation of the
capabilities" ?
what i will miss, if i use memory flash device as
block device and merge memory flash device with other
block devices ?
what is the advantage of MTD model with respect to
block devices , why we use MTD ?
thanks for your help.
> --
> dwmw2
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 23:53 why MTD model ? Studying MTD
2002-06-13 10:34 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-13 16:19 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-13 16:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-13 17:13 ` Howto create a new jffs2 Krypton
2002-06-14 2:22 ` Steve Tsai
2002-06-14 3:20 ` Problem putting JFFS on MTD Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 7:33 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 8:46 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 8:50 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:18 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:39 ` Clifford Loo
2002-06-14 6:22 ` Howto create a new jffs2 Krypton
2002-06-14 6:55 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 7:46 ` Krypton
2002-06-14 7:47 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:52 ` Krypton
2002-06-13 21:34 ` why MTD model ? David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 4:29 ` Studying MTD [this message]
2002-06-14 7:54 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:01 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 9:23 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 9:59 ` Studying MTD
2002-06-14 12:21 ` David Woodhouse
2002-06-14 12:36 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-19 14:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2002-06-14 23:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2002-06-15 7:34 ` David Woodhouse
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