Re: jffs on non-MTD device?

From: Padraig Brady (Padraig@AnteFacto.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 06:45:42 EST


Some (most?) CF disks have hareware wareleveling.
I use ext2 with e2compr patch.

Padraig.

Pavel Machek wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to run jffs on my ATA-flash disk (running ext2 could kill
>some flash cells too soon, right?) but it refuses:
>
> 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?
>
> Pavel
>

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