Block device as MTD

[Simon Evans]

yes, just modprobe blkmtd device=/dev/hda3

Then you should get a new device in /dev/mtdblock/ (if you are using devfs)
just mount the /dev/mtdblock device.

cheers
si




>
>Can I mount a partition like /dev/hda3 or perhaps
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3?
>
>Bao
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org
>> [mailto:linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Simon Evans
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:20 PM
>> To: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
>> Subject: Re: Block device as MTD 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have checked this into CVS now. The following files are affected:
>> 
>> drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c  - the driver itself
>> drivers/mtd/devices/Config.in
>> drivers/mtd/devices/Makefile
>> patches/Configure.help
>> 
>> Please consider this alpha software. It uses raw/io to the 
>> disk (not via
>> the buffer cache). Basic usage is:
>> 
>> modprobe blkmtd device=/dev/floppy/0  etc
>> 
>> If you are going to put a JFFS2 fs on the device, please note that
>> it can take quite a while to mount because JFFS2 scans every block.
>> A 96MB CF card took about 2 minutes.
>> 
>> On the plus side, if you have more memory then the size of the device,
>> you should find the whole device in the page cache ;)
>> 
>> cheers
>> si
>> 
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