Re: Linux SmartMedia driver advice requested

David Woodhouse
2002-03-20T17:28:34Z

gleixner@autronix.de said:
> That's one side of the problem. The other is, that you can use only
> JFFS2 on this devices at the moment . There is no other filesystem,
> which handles the nand stuff correct. If you want to use the
> original SMC DOS-FAT filesystem, which is used by MP3-Players,
> Digicams etc., you have to hack a new filesystem driver.

SmartMedia is just another translation layer which pretends to be a block
device (cf. previous rants). You normally put FAT on that block device,
just as you do with NFTL and FTL - but you don't have to.

At least two people have expressed interest in writing that translation
layer code. I haven't seen any of it yet.

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