Re: [uml-devel] Loopback mounting jffs2 under UML?

2007-12-18 Thread Rob Landley
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

Re: [uml-devel] Loopback mounting jffs2 under UML?

2007-12-18 Thread Stian Skjelstad
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

Re: [uml-devel] Loopback mounting jffs2 under UML?

2007-12-18 Thread Jeff Dike
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

[uml-devel] Loopback mounting jffs2 under UML?

2007-12-18 Thread Rob Landley
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