[Soekris] JFFS2 on CFs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:33:20PM -0500, Victor Grau Serrat wrote:

> Following a discussion from last week, I have been trying to use ext2 as
> the ro partition and JFFS2 as the rw partition on a CF card, using
> Debian (2.4.18); but I'm having hard times to make JFFS2 to work.
> 
> I'm confused whether JFFS2 relies on MTD or not (I've read lots of posts
> elsewhere with contradictory arguments), or which device should I use to
> access and put the JFFS2 partition. On the other hand, support for MTD
> seems to be compiled in the Debian distro provided in the soekris
> website (by Mike Machado), but the corresponding devices don't seem to
> be present.

It does rely on MTD, and so if you want to use it on top of a non-MTD block
device, you must use the blkmtd driver (which presents any block device as
an MTD device).  Here's what I do:

root=1f00 blkmtd_device=/dev/hda2

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 - mdz