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From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com>
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On 7/27/06, Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru> wrote:
> The alternative way to is to create a good block device layer over UBI,
> and then use conventional file systems (N.B. the mtdblock driver is
> *not* a good block device layer).

Just a note, you lose compression if you do that.  AFAIK, jffs2 is the
only in-kernel filesystem that supports transparent read/write
compression.

josh