[PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hello Konstantin,

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 18:40 +0300, kbaidarov wrote:
> Description:
> The following patch adds readonly block device layer over mtd
> that allows to use any filesystem on this device in RO mode and
> thus gain faster mount times and better throughput rates.

This is very ambition claim. In comparison with what?

> How it works:
> Blocks translation routine was added to read sector function. Assuming
> that bad block won't appear during MTD reading and BBT is correct, bad
> block is skipped and requested block is lazily mapped to good one.
> Block driver based on the mtd readonly device driver mtdblock_ro.c and
> translation routine was taken from the patch of Pantelis Antoniou
> (which can be found at
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-May/009672.html).
> 

So basically this is bad eraseblock-aware mtdblock_ro? But why you
created a new driver and with so weird name :-) ? Why didn't you just
changed mtdblock_ro? IOW, why you didn't adapt Pantelis' patch instead
and re-send it? (I have no idea why this patch isn't im MTD still,

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)