Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 05 Jul 1999 19:26:42 +0100


jgg@ualberta.ca said:
> How interesting (It looks simple to me, but is there something I'm
> not aware of?) It beats rebooting my desktop every time I screw up on
> this filesystem driver (MS Flash Filesystem 2 if anyone cares)!

I use the MTD subsystem itself for testing - my workstation has 128Mb RAM, so I
boot it with 'mem=96M', load the 'physmem' driver to handle the extra 32Mb,
and play with the filesystem on that. Course, I have these Disks-On-Chip too,
but I haven't got a MTD system driver for them yet :)

Using FFS2 directly on the MTD layer rather than through an 'intermediate'
block device should allow us to do clever things like execute-in-place (XIP)
without too much trouble. Is there any need for FFS2 directly on a block
device? If there is, I may have to rethink the arrangements to allow it.

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