Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

David Woodhouse
2007-05-16T12:07:18Z

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But it includes an MTD header file.
>
> Can this code be tested by people who don't have MTD hardware? We used to
> ahve a fake-mtd-on-a-blockdev thing, whcih was in a state of some
> disrepair. Maybe it got repaired. Or removed. I can't immediately locate
> it...

There's block2mtd, as Jörn pointed out. There's also 'nandsim' and
'mtdram', which will vmalloc some space and use that to emulate NAND or
NOR flash, respectively.

> It's strange and a bit regrettable that an fs would have dependency on MTD,
> really.

Why? Other file systems has dependencies on BLOCK or on NET. It seems
entirely normal to me.

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