From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>,
Bjorn Wesen <bjorn.wesen@axis.com>,
jffs-dev@axis.com, mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: garbage collect
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:39:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8697.962278797@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006281529030.10194-100000@xanadu.vip.ca>
nico@cam.org said:
> I was thinking about the MTD block interface of course. That's the
> only method to use conventional filesystems with.
The only time the mtdblock interface is useful is when the underlying
memory device is RAM. AFAIK Linux doesn't allow you to register a block
device with a blocksize as large as the erase blocks of most flash chips we
use.
So it's not really likely to be used that often, and especially not with
partitioning. JFFS only uses it to find a handle to the real MTD device,
and I'm hoping to change that fairly shortly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-29 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000628091427.16453B-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>
2000-06-28 16:05 ` garbage collect David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 16:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2000-06-28 16:44 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 18:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-28 18:54 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-28 19:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2000-06-29 11:39 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-06-29 15:06 ` mtdblock interface Nicolas Pitre
2000-07-03 15:12 ` garbage collect Alan Cox
2000-07-03 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2000-07-14 11:05 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] <394F7351.BC878E0D@auriga.ru>
2000-06-20 14:16 ` dwmw2
2000-06-21 8:06 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-23 9:39 ` David Woodhouse
2000-06-23 9:49 ` Nick Ivanter
[not found] ` <394F88B3.1C046375@matrox.com>
2000-06-21 8:37 ` Nick Ivanter
2000-06-21 8:43 ` Nick Ivanter
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