mtdblock module & I'm Back again

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Nov 1 17:43:30 EST 2000


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> IMHO mtdblock is currently broken.  It works read-only.  I'm implementing
> the write support at the moment.
> 
> However, in the mean time, you might consider investigating JFFS which
> might just do what you want.  Even if JFFS requires mtdblock it is used
> only to identify the flash device so the issue with mtdblock write support
> doesn't apply to JFFS.

That's also being worked on. It won't take too much to remove the
FS_REQUIRES_DEV flag from the jffs filesystem and allow you to use it
without having to have the placebo mtdblock device present. 

-- 
dwmw2




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