Reg:FAT support for NAND

[yang chen]

I forgot replying the mail to mtd maillist.  sorry.

2008/5/15 veena s <veena_3_2003 at yahoo.co.in>:
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> Hi Chan ,
> Thanks a lot i tried with this it is working fine ....
>
> Regards
> Veena
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> --- yang chen <yangchen.mot at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> why not use vfat over jffs2 ?  you can mount your
>> partition as jffs2
>> first , then create a vfat image (a file) in it.
>> then loop back the
>> file as loopback device ,then mount the loopback
>> device as vfat, so
>> that your vfat image can use jffs2' wear levelling.
>>
>> -Yang
>>
>>
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>> 2008/5/12 veena s <veena_3_2003 at yahoo.co.in>:
>> > Hi ,
>> >
>> >
>> >  I want to Use FAT Filesystem for NAND in the
>> Linux
>> >  Kernel ver-2.6.10.
>> >  We have tried by enabling NFTL layer . But we are
>> >  facing the following  problem to mount  with
>> FAT.....
>> >
>> >  1 ) nftl_format : utility is used to format the
>> device
>> >  requires the erase size to be 8k bytes, but our
>> device
>> >  has erase size of 128kbytes.so nftl_format is not
>> able
>> >  to recognise the erase size.
>> >
>> >  2 ) We have created the device nodes as
>> /dev/nftla and
>> >  tried to mount FAT over it using the following
>> >  command.
>> >
>> >  mount -tvfat /dev/nftla /mnt/nand
>> >  but above command is failing.
>> >
>> >  So please suggest whether the above steps are
>> >  correct.?
>> >  and help us how to use FAT over NAND.
>> >
>> >  Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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-Yang