Re: JFFS2 support in RH 8.0?

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On 30 Mar 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i have an (alleged) JFFS2 format file that i would like
> > to mount (via -o loop) and examine on my RH box, so i'm
> > trying to build in JFFS2 filesystem support.
> 
> You cannot use '-oloop' because /dev/loop0 is a block device and JFFS2
> does not work on those. JFFS2 works only on MTD devices.
> 
> Load the equivalent fake MTD device 'mtdram', with appropriate
> total_size and erase_size options to match the file system image you
> have, copy your image onto that and mount it.
> 
> cf. http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/LoopBack

actually, i've already been there -- instructions
are somewhat misleading, so i dicked around, figured
out how it finally worked, and posted to my local
LYG, since some people there were interested.

rday



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