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Studying MTD <studying_mtd@yahoo.com> writes:

> Please let me know, which block device is closest to
> Flash memory :-
> 1. Hard Disk
> 2. Floppy drive
> 3. PCMCIA memory card
> 4. Ramdisk
> 5. or some other block device ?

The closest are CD-RW disks....

I wonder if it would make sense to port them to the mtd layer?

Eric