journalled fs on partitioned flash

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Sep 27 07:29:31 EDT 2000


dwmw2 at infradead.org said:
>  The mtdblock device doesn't actually work

dg at tao-group.com said:
>  Do I take it that I can't burn a cramfs image into a raw partition,
> and then mount /mnt /dev/mtdblock/1 -t cramfs 

s/doesn't actually work/work reliably/

YMMV - if you're using it read-only and never writing to any other parts of 
the same flash chips, you ought to be fine. If it ever has to 
sleep in the request function, boom.


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