File systems and Disk on Chips

[Russ Dill]

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:00, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I have here a 2 Megabyte Disk on Chip device, plugged into a carrier
> board. It is now wearing the GRUB based firmware. How when I bring up
> my system, the DOC device complains about the lack of a file system.
> Any ideas as to how I could put a file system on this device?
> Preferably as a native Linux format.

Basically, you put a block filesystem on top of NFTL that grub
understands. Grub does not at this point understand YAFFS or JFFS2 on
NAND flash, but I'm sure there a lot of people who are looking for that
and it wouldn't be difficult to do.

-- 
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill at asu.edu>