I want to loopback mount a jffs2 filesystem, and this filesystem has incestuous knowledge of flash devices for wear levelling and stuff, so it will only mount an actual flash device and not a normal block device.
There's a way to make a loopback device look like a flash device, letting you loopback mount jffs2, but it involves recompiling the kerenel to add support for it, and of course I went "User Mode Linux"... Except that UML disables the flash menu entirely. Basically, I need to be able to enable MTD_BLOCK so I can go: losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/imagefile.jffs2 insmod blkmtd erasesz=256 device=/dev/loop0 mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt This shouldn't need any actual flash hardware. It's just layering another translation layer on top of loopback. Suggestions? Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
