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David,
    Sorry, I don't fully understand your 2nd suggestion, 'translation 
layer' like the SmartMedia one.
Is that means the smartmedia mtd driver already has bad block management?

David Woodhouse wrote:

>jason@emsoftltd.com said:
>
>>    I trying to use EXT2 for my nandflash driver. Is that OK? 
>>
>
>No. You need _some_ kind of file system which is capable of dealing with 
>flash -- either a real file system directly on the flash such as JFFS2, or 
>a 'translation layer' like the SmartMedia one or NFTL if you really need to 
>use ext2 for some reason.
>
>--
>dwmw2
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>


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Best Regards,

Jason Chan
Emsoft Ltd.