mtdblock module & I'm Back again

Nicolas Pitre nico at cam.org
Wed Nov 1 17:52:44 EST 2000



On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > 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. 

Be sure it is still usable for root filesystems as it does now...


Nicolas



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