linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

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Message-Id: <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 20:07:18 +0800
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But it includes an MTD header file.
> 
> Can this code be tested by people who don't have MTD hardware?  We used to
> ahve a fake-mtd-on-a-blockdev thing, whcih was in a state of some
> disrepair.  Maybe it got repaired.  Or removed.  I can't immediately locate
> it...

There's block2mtd, as Jörn pointed out. There's also 'nandsim' and
'mtdram', which will vmalloc some space and use that to emulate NAND or
NOR flash, respectively.

> It's strange and a bit regrettable that an fs would have dependency on MTD,
> really.

Why? Other file systems has dependencies on BLOCK or on NET. It seems
entirely normal to me.

-- 
dwmw2

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