[Yaffs] [Yaffs-archive] Re: Mount curiosity

>
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?
>
All works fine now

Thanks

Nick
> -- 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
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Nick Bane
> > Cambridge, UK.
> > +44(0)1954 719270
> >
> >
> >
> >
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