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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Duy-Ky Nguyen" <duykynguyen@hotmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: How can I make flash writeable?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:53:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081018075316.11AB0835697A@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU119-DAV13B797B2CC811E90F87406BB2D0@phx.gbl>

Dear "Duy-Ky Nguyen",

In message <BLU119-DAV13B797B2CC811E90F87406BB2D0@phx.gbl> you wrote:
> 
> I guess you want to have RW filesystem for your Linux target.
> If that's the case you need to have root filesystem as JFFS2.

This is not correct. You can use a read-only root file system combined
with additionala ,writable file systems.

> There's a document MPC8313E-RDB BSP User's Guide comes with the MPC8313E-RDB 
> package.
> It has all info for several filesystems like NFS (network), Ramdisk 
> (Read-Only), and JFFS2 (Read/Write)

That's incorrect, either. A ramdisk is usually writable (unless you
mount it read-only, which would be very unusuak).

See also
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemDesignAndBuilding

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1224291602.14390.linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
2008-10-18  1:19 ` How can I make flash writeable? Duy-Ky Nguyen
2008-10-18  7:53   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3776.1224533270.3127.linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
2008-10-21  1:23 ` Duy-Ky Nguyen
     [not found] <mailman.1.1224378004.9077.linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
2008-10-19  2:49 ` Duy-Ky Nguyen
2008-10-20 15:36   ` Mark Bishop
2008-10-16 18:45 Mark Bishop
2008-10-17  7:01 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-10-17 12:33   ` Mark Bishop
2008-10-17 13:13     ` Marco Stornelli

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