For FAT compatibility, i.e., USB mass storage, you could always just have a FAT file image that just lives on the YAFFS filesystem. Sean On 4/20/06, Wookey wrote: > +++ Ian Oliver [06-04-20 10:08 +0100]: > > In article <200604200805.41158.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>, Charles Manning wrote: > > > > Is this summary correct - > > Not only doesn't Linux yaffs need MTD, but it can't us it? > > Yaffs doesn't need MTD, but it can use it if you like (and most people do > under linux). > > > But yaffs direct provides chunk management so we can sit our own fat/fat32 on > > top of it? (with some interface wrangling to map the block requests to the yaffs > > chunk management - we need fat32 for the non-Linux case) > > I think that's possible, yes, but Charles is best-placed to comment on the > efficiency and how much work is involved. It is something a few people have > mentioned (as fat-comptibility is obviously generally-useful) but I'm not > aware of anyone having actually implemented it. > > Wookey > -- > Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 > work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ > > _______________________________________________ > yaffs mailing list > yaffs@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk > http://stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaffs >