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Subject: Re: blkmtd and name_to_dev_t
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J=F6rn Engel wrote:
  > You are not wrong.
>=20
> A possibly better way to deliver the same functionality (jffs2 rootfs
> on block device through emulation) might be to add transparent
> translation support to jffs2.  Something that will make "mount
> /dev/hda1 /mnt -t jffs2" work.  How exactly the code for this should
> look, I don't know yet.  But given that jffs2 is the only sane user of
> bd->mtd translation, it looks like the Right Thing to me.

This is a bit out of context and I'm not arguing. Just wanted to note.=20
Mount and linux long support device-less mount. The beset way to mount=20
JFFS2 would be to do like this:

mount mtd0 /mnt/jffs2 -t jffs2

No need to have any fake block device, no need to have any device node=20
at all. JFFS2 seems to (not sure) not support this but it is trivial to a=
dd.

I tend to think that this mtdblock fake stuff is some ancient crap and=20
has to go and not confuse people.

--=20
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.