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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:45:42 +0100
From: Padraig Brady <Padraig@AnteFacto.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: jffs on non-MTD device?
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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
>