On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:29:11 Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:45:23PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > There's a way to make a loopback device look like a flash device, letting
> > you loopback mount jffs2, but it involves recompiling the kerenel to add
> > support for it, and of
I did try UML + blkmtd and jffs statically compiled in a couple of years
ago and it then almost worked out of the box. It failed then for me due
to a very small issue: the initializers in the different drivers
initialized in the wrong order, so I got a panic due to a
null-dereference. (driver initi
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:45:23PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> There's a way to make a loopback device look like a flash device, letting
> you loopback mount jffs2, but it involves recompiling the kerenel to add
> support for it, and of course I went "User Mode Linux"... Except
> that UML disabl
I want to loopback mount a jffs2 filesystem, and this filesystem has
incestuous knowledge of flash devices for wear levelling and stuff, so it
will only mount an actual flash device and not a normal block device.
There's a way to make a loopback device look like a flash device, letting you
loop