root jffs2

[David Woodhouse]

nico at cam.org said:
>  On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Vipin Malik wrote:
> > 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?

> This is IMHO not the real solution.

Why? No other filesystem can be mounted on empty media without some form of 
mkfs.

In fact you wouldn't need to do every block. All you'd have to do is put 
the 12-byte cleanmarker node at the beginning of the first block and it'd 
be sufficient. 

You could do this with a suitable 'echo' command.


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