Disk-On-Chip 2000 and Linux

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, David Woodhouse wrote:

> What do you mean? If you want multiple filesystems on a single piece of flash, 
> aren't you better off using a single FTL and making standard partitions on 
> that, rather than splitting the MTD into multiple flash filesystems?

I don't want to use FTL, and FFS2 doesn't have a clean way to search for
its header and there isn't any mechanism for supporting two FFS2
filesystems. The AMD uForCE board has a 8meg of flash structured something
like this: 
 bios
 QNX FFS2 FS
 QNX OS image
 WinCE FFS2 FS

Jason



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