[RFC] read-only filesystem support for NAND flash devices

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat May 13 10:08:13 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:52 +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> I'd rather go modifying mtdblock_ro. I don't want to implement FTL 
> because 1) as David pointed out, I don't need to handle writes; 2) I'm
> afraid we may end up dealing with patent issues here again. 

mtdblock_ro _is_ an FTL. Just a very very primitive one :)

By all means extend it until it does what we need -- but don't call it
mtdblock_ro.

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dwmw2





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