Hello,
We've got a product where we'd like to export some storage off via USB
mass storage. However to do this under Linux it has to be a standard
filesystem, since the host has to under stand it, ie: FAT. Unfortunately
there doesn't seem to be a reliable way of running FAT on NAND under
Linux (or any way, let along reliable).

One suggestion has been to make a very large file on the YAFFS
partition, which is internally fat formatted, mount it loopback on our
device, and export it over USB when required.

Has anyone had any experience with this kind of setup? Are there any
performance issues, or possibilities of corruption? The unit will
probably lose power quite frequently, so we cannot be sure of a nice
shutdown.

Thanks,
Andre

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