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From: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: FAQ entry for loopback mounting
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:10:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4435134E.6000102@netwinder.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4433E9A1.1030807@netwinder.org>

Quoting myself:

> METHOD mtdram:
 > [snip]
>     # cp file.jffs2 /dev/mtd0
>     # mount -tjffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt/foo

I'm bored of arguing about suffixes.  Let's talk MTD.

When using mtdram device, is it necessary to fill the device with 0xff 
first?  Suppose I make a 8388608 byte mtdram device and then my 
file.jffs2 is only 6000000 bytes long.  Need I fill the rest of the 
device with 0xff before mounting?  Should I fill with zeros (there was 
an unanswered question on this subject 2005-Dec-14 on the list).

What about if I "reaload", eg. umount the device, and want to copy a new 
file.jffs2 image into it?  Or should the driver be reloaded in this case?

-R

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05 16:00 FAQ entry for loopback mounting Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-05 16:27 ` David Woodhouse
     [not found]   ` <4433F9FE.7020501@rossvideo.com>
2006-04-05 17:27     ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-05 17:36       ` Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-05 19:05         ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-06 10:33           ` David Vrabel
2006-04-06 12:04             ` Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-06 12:15               ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-06 12:39                 ` David Vrabel
2006-04-06 13:10 ` Ralph Siemsen [this message]

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