question:EXT2 on a normal NAND flash(not a diskonchip flash)

[superlidu at vip.sina.com]

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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>

To: superlidu at vip.sina.com

Subject: Re: question:EXT2 on a normal NAND flash(not a diskonchip flash)

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:03:30 +0100



On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:43 +0800, superlidu at vip.sina.com wrote: 

 > Hi, Now I am going to use ext2 on a normal nand flash, according to 

 > the MTD guild,there should be four layer: ext2-->NFTL-->MTD-->NAND 

 > FLASH. now I have a question, the xconfig help said NFTL is used on 

 > the diskonchip flash, can I use it on the normal nand flash(like 

 > samsung\\\'s)? if it can do, what should I do in my nand flash driver? 

  

 NFTL works only on DiskOnChip devices.  

  

 Use a NAND aware filesystem. 

 	tglx 

 do you mean I should use JFFS2? but if normal NAND flash can only use JFFS2, maybe it is not 

flexible restrict,e.g. if cannot use FAT, the nand flash cannot used as a U-DISK.



 Thank you for your reply!

  sword

  

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