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catlee@canada.com said:
> I've had some success getting MTD and JFFS (v1) working on my 2.2.18
> system.  I've been trying over the past few weeks to get JFFS2 up and
> running.  I've got it to the point where the kernel can read a jffs2
> partition, but I really have no idea how to get writing to work.  The
> mechanism for writing seems completely different in 2.2.x than in
> 2.4.x

> Any pointers?  Is anyone else working on this? 

I know of nobody else working on a 2.2 backport. Worst case, you should be 
able to ditch the page-based write code and call jffs2_write_file_range() 
from a jffs2_file_write() which you provide instead of 
generic_file_write(), surely?

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dwmw2