From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Vipin Malik <vipin.malik@daniel.com>,
Xavier DEBREUIL <xde@inventel.fr>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: root jffs2
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:33:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4676.992450013@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106131230490.23397-100000@xanadu.home>
nico@cam.org said:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Vipin Malik wrote:
> > What about a "jffs2erase" routine that not only erases the flash sectors
> > but also writes out this "signature" at the start of every erase block.
> > This way one can mount an empty JFFS2 fs on a MTD partition erased by
> > jffs2erase?
> This is IMHO not the real solution.
Why? No other filesystem can be mounted on empty media without some form of
mkfs.
In fact you wouldn't need to do every block. All you'd have to do is put
the 12-byte cleanmarker node at the beginning of the first block and it'd
be sufficient.
You could do this with a suitable 'echo' command.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 9:53 root jffs2 Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 13:21 ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 13:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 14:00 ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-13 15:02 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 15:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 15:32 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 15:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 15:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 15:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:04 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 16:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 16:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:24 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 16:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 16:33 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-06-13 16:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 18:42 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 20:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 20:58 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 21:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-13 21:42 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 23:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-14 14:37 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-13 21:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-13 16:10 ` David Woodhouse
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