Cram FS on NAND - How to do this?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jun 11 05:04:20 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:58, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> That is a valid approach.
> 
> I take it that you mean a new MTD block device over NAND that
> automatically skips over bad blocks and presents an error free
> block interface for use by read only filesystems.

Basically, yes. You can then either require the use of a special
userspace tool to program the file system images onto the flash, or
perhaps you could implement it as a writable block device, in the
expectation that people don't _actually_ use it in write mode in
production.

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dwmw2




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