why MTD model ?

[Studying MTD]

--- David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> studying_mtd at yahoo.com said:
> > Can somehow we treat(emulate) memory device as a
> block device and
> > treat memory device like a hard disk ?
> 
> Not directly, no. There are drivers which do so --
> and present a flash 
> device as a block device using translation layers of
> various complexity, 

you mean, it is possible.


> but that is not a true representation of the
> capabilities of the underlying 
> device.
> 

what you mean by "true representation of the
capabilities" ?

what i will miss, if i use memory flash device as
block device and merge memory flash device with other
block devices ?

what is the advantage of MTD model with respect to
block devices , why we use MTD ?

thanks for your help.

> --
> dwmw2
> 
> 
> 
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