From: Vipin Malik <vipin.malik@daniel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Xavier DEBREUIL <xde@inventel.fr>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: root jffs2
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:24:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B2793B8.6DF379DF@daniel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1933.992448679@redhat.com
What about a "jffs2erase" routine that not only erases the flash sectors but
also writes out this
"signature" at the start of every erase block. This way one can mount an
empty JFFS2 fs on
a MTD partition erased by jffs2erase?
Vipin
David Woodhouse wrote:
> nico@cam.org said:
> > That was my belief. It seemed logical. I was aparently wrong. I
> > too consider it a bug if it isn't that way.
>
> Agreed. But the alternative bug - erasing the whole device if we tried to
> mount as jffs2 by mistake - was worse.
>
> --
> dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 9:53 root jffs2 Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 13:21 ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 14:00 ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 15:02 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 15:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 15:32 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 15:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 15:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 15:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:04 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 16:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 16:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:24 ` Vipin Malik [this message]
2001-06-13 16:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:33 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 16:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 18:42 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 20:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 20:58 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 21:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 21:42 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 23:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-14 14:37 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 21:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 16:10 ` David Woodhouse
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