Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work? | Date | Mon, 05 Jul 1999 19:26:42 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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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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