Re: Some news for this: [PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD ?

Jörn Engel
2007-11-21T17:20:17Z

On Wed, 21 November 2007 10:58:17 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 2007/11/21, Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>:
> > >
> > > What problem does the driver solve?
> > It allow to use cramfs/squashfs/fat in read-only on NAND flash for
> > embedded systems.
>
> Not really. It allows you to put one of those filesystems into
> NAND using a bad-block aware program initially, and mount it. It
> doesn't handle run-time bit flips or errors from what I can see.

Whether that is necessary I cannot tell. Maybe some people have
hardware where this isn't an issue.

But why yet another mtdblock driver? Is there a reason not to add the
required bits to mtdblock_ro.c?

Jörn

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