CRAMFS on MTD/NAND Issue

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:51, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > roll your own: Please, make a static compressed filesystem (like
> > > cramfs) that incorporates extra blocks, so that when the checksum is
> > > bad while initially writing the filesystem, or reading the file system
> > > (in the case where ecc can save the data), it rewrites this block to a
> > > free sector). It would seem like a simple modification to cramfs to me.
> >
> > Don't reinvent the wheel! :)
>
> Having a image based filesystem which cannot be written to has it's
> beauty..
Mount your rootfs _readonly_ and you have the _same_ including bad block 
handling.

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Thomas
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