[Yaffs] Re: Yaffs direct

[Sean Kelley]

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 <wookey at aleph1.co.uk> wrote:
> +++ Ian Oliver [06-04-20 10:08 +0100]:
> > In article <200604200805.41158.manningc2 at 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
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