root jffs2

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Vipin Malik wrote:

> > > This also means that if you accidentally mount a JFFS2 fs on a device that
> > > has an existing JFFS fs on it
> > > it will format the entire device- without warning!
> >
> > This behavior was modified recently.  If JFFS2 finds dirty blocks without a
> > single valid JFFS2 node on the flash it won't erase it and refuse to mount.
> >
>
> Does this mean that you can no longer mount JFFS2 on an erased (blank) flash mtd
> device and
> hand populate the blank fs ?

A blank flash isn't considered dirty.


Nicolas