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From: Padraig Brady <Padraig@AnteFacto.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, jffs-dev@axis.com
Subject: Re: jffs on non-MTD device?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:45:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B24AF66.3010602@AnteFacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010525005253.A16005@bug.ucw.cz>

Some (most?) CF disks have hareware wareleveling.
I use ext2 with e2compr patch.

Padraig.

Pavel Machek wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to run jffs on my ATA-flash disk (running ext2 could kill
>some flash cells too soon, right?) but it refuses:
>
>        if (MAJOR(dev) != MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR) {
>                printk(KERN_WARNING "JFFS: Trying to mount a "
>                       "non-mtd device.\n");
>                return 0;
>        }
>
>What are reasons for this check?
>
>								Pavel
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-11 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-24 22:52 jffs on non-MTD device? Pavel Machek
2001-05-25  8:44 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-11 11:45 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2001-06-11 12:41 ` David Woodhouse

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