root jffs2

Vipin Malik vipin.malik at daniel.com
Wed Jun 13 12:24:24 EDT 2001


What about a "jffs2erase" routine that not only erases the flash sectors but
also writes out this
"signature" at the start of every erase block. This way one can mount an
empty JFFS2 fs on
a MTD partition erased by jffs2erase?

Vipin




David Woodhouse wrote:

> nico at cam.org said:
> >  That was my belief.  It seemed logical.  I was aparently wrong.  I
> > too consider it a bug if it isn't that way.
>
> Agreed. But the alternative bug - erasing the whole device if we tried to
> mount as jffs2 by mistake - was worse.
>
> --
> dwmw2





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