On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:36 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi John, > > > It's unfortunate that there's no "block device" way to access Flash > > chips in Linux without using a filesystem at all. It's much easier > > to measure and tune I/O performance without a filesystem first, > > then see what (filesystem or driver) optimizations are required to > > make a particular filesystem fast on that device.
What's wrong with just reading from the character device /dev/mtd0? > Does e.g. "dd if=mtd0 of=somefile bs=1M count=20" accomplish this? > (When a program expects a block device argument, you can give a raw > "mtd0" instead.) No, that's only for mount. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel Corporation _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
