[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm trying to run jffs on my ATA-flash disk (running ext2 could kill
> some flash cells too soon, right?) but it refuses:
CompactFlash does wear levelling internally.
> if (MAJOR(dev) != MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "JFFS: Trying to mount a "
> "non-mtd device.\n");
> return 0;
> }
> What are reasons for this check?
JFFS doesn't actually use the block device interface. Specifying it in the
mount command is simply a hack to make life easier, which nobody's yet
managed to obsolete. We actually use the underlying MTD device:
mtd = get_mtd_device(NULL, MINOR(dev));
If you want JFFS (or JFFS2) on a CF device - in the apparent absence of any
other relatively low overhead, compressing, journalling file system to use
on it - then you need to provide a translation driver similar to the mtdram
one which fakes an MTD device, using a block device as backing store.
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dwmw2
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