Re: [PATCH] mtd: allow mtd and jffs2 when ARCH=um

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Thu Dec 16 2010 - 10:19:17 EST


On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 00:31 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> That is awesome and I'm not finding any documentation on it... Ah:
>
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Modifying_the_root_image#Block_device_emulating_an_MTD_device
>
> Wow that's awkward. Let's see, that says...
>
> mknod /tmp/mtdblock0 b 31 0
> modprobe loop
> losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs.jffs2
> modprobe mtdblock
> modprobe block2mtd
> # Note the ,128KiB is needed (on 2.6.26 at least) to set the
> # eraseblock size.
> echo "/dev/loop0,128KiB" > /sys/module/block2mtd/parameters/block2mtd
> modprobe jffs2
> mount -t jffs2 /tmp/mtdblock0 /media/jffs2

You should not need mtdblock in modern kernels, it is legacy. You should
be abole to mount jffs2 on top of mtd0 with

mount -t jffs2 mtd0 /media/jffs2

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÑÑÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ)

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