On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> dwmw2@infradead.org said:
> > Instructions on switching an iPAQ over to use MTD and JFFS:
>
> > If you want to continue using ext2 on /usr/local, you can put that
> > into /etc/fstab instead.
>
> It turns out that under load, there are some problems with writing to the
> flash block device. If you want to stick with ext2 on /usr/local, you should
> wait a little longer. It should be fine for JFFS and cramfs, though. (JFFS
> doesn't go through the block device, and cramfs is read-only).
Even with read-only cramfs, the current MTD block driver in the
handhelds.org CVS may cause severe RAM corruption and produce random
crashes. Don't use it unless you get a fixed version.
I finally fixed the problem in the MTD's home CVS at infradead.org.
Now the MTd layer has all the features that were provided by my flash-mem
driver, I intend to drop flash-mem completely in my next np patch against
test10 in favor of MTd drivers. This of course allows for JFFS to be used
concurently with any other filesystems on different flash partitions.
Nicolas
Received on Mon Nov 6 19:47:54 2000
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