Re: Making partitions questions.

David Woodhouse
2001-06-28T10:36:55Z

abraham@2d3d.co.za said:
> In order to actually make a userland utility you'd have to implement
> a system call to actually send the info to the partition driver which
> will have to reregister the devices. Not all that difficult, but I
> don't think anybody is working on it right now.

You don't necessarily need to be able to change them at runtime. We already
support a few methods of storing partitioning information on the medium
rather than hard-coding it in the mapping driver. We can grok RedBoot FIS
tables, Compaq bootldr partitions, and also the ARM Firmware Suite layout.

abraham@2d3d.co.za said:
> Yes. As long as you compile your kernel with MTD block device support
> it, you can put anything on those block devices. I wouldn't use ext2
> on flash tho since it's not optimised for flash - jffs2 is definitely
> your best bet.

He said ext2 on FTL. That's sane, but possibly not legal, depending on
whether software patents are enforceable in your part of the world.

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