SmartMedia FAT

[David Woodhouse]

Some SM adapters do the translation in firmware and present themselves
to the host as a real block device. You don't have any _choice_ but to
use the SMTL on those.

You don't actually have to use _FAT_ on that though, any more than you
_have_ to use FAT on floppies or DiskOnChip just because that's how they
are shipped. You could use ext3 or something else powerfail-safe. You
still have the inefficient journalling-on-journalling effect that you
get with all such fake-block-device arrangements, but it shouldn't
actually break before you wear the flash out.

Implementing SMTL really shouldn't be that hard. The mtd_blkdevs code in
CVS handles all the horridness of the Linux block layer for you and you
only need to write readsector() and writesector() routines. There's code
in drivers/usb/storage/sddr09.c which may help, since those devices make
the host do the translation.

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dwmw2