From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13D3Hz-0006eu-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:05:51 +0100 Received: from dns.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3] helo=pasanda.cygnus.co.uk) by infradead.org with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13D3Hx-0006eo-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:05:50 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Alan Cox Cc: nico@cam.org (Nicolas Pitre), jgg@ualberta.ca (Jason Gunthorpe), bjorn.wesen@axis.com (Bjorn Wesen), jffs-dev@axis.com, mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: garbage collect Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:05:34 +0100 Message-ID: <8096.963572734@cygnus.co.uk> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > > MTD devices are not even vaguely related to block devices, and don't > > go anywhere near the buffer cache. > The interesting question is should they. Withouth them going via the > block layer you wont be able to mirror them or potentially run a > loopback fs over them soon I had a chat with sct about this. For mirroring the answer is definitely "Do it in the VFS". Loopback I still maintain should be done via nbd. -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org