http://www.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yaffs/yaffs_fs.c.diff?r1=1.29&r2=1.30

OK, I've added a check for the mtd major device matching too and added it to 
CVS. See above URL for the diff.

I have checked it compiles, but no further.

Nick, can you confirm whether or not this fixes the problem?

-- Charles


On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:35, Nick Bane wrote:
> Interesting issue:
>
> I mounted a usb DVD without specifying a file system eg "mount
> /dev/scsi/..blah1../cd /mnt/hda" and to my surprise I found a copy of a
> yaffs fs from /dev/mtdblock/1 mounted instead - after going through ext2
> ext3 vfat etc and deciding that yaffs was its true fs.
>
> It seems that yaffs assumes that it is only ever mounted on a mtd device
> and that it only needs to glance at its minor number to work out which
> device to use from which it checks to see if it is indeed a nand device.
>
> In this case is decided that the "1" from the scsi block device meant
> /dev/mtdblock/1 (that is my nand boot partition) and not letting the scsi
> iso9660 filesystem mount as I expected.
>
> Needs fixing - Charles?
>
> Nick
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