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 137ccw-0000aN-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:37:02 +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 137ccv-0000aH-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:37:01 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , 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: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:39:57 +0100 Message-ID: <8697.962278797@cygnus.co.uk> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: 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. -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org