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Subject: Re: [patch] Allow any filesystem on MTD Nand when Read Only
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David Woodhouse wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 15:33 +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
>>Hello there.
>>
>>The following patch allows you to have any filesystem over NAND when mounted
>>read only.
>>
>
>Please don't do it like this. Do it as a block device 'translation
>layer' instead. See nftl/ftl/mtdblock for examples.
>
>Can you join irc.freenode.net #mtd ?
>
>
Sorry I'm at work now and IRC is blocked.

I'll try to get into it when I get home in about 2 hours.

I'll take a look at nftl/ftl/mtdblock.

The patch is very small and it works perfectly however.
What are your main objections?

Regards

Pantelis