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| Subject: | Re: Enabling JFFS as Root FS |
| From: | David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 15 May 2008 10:27:47 -0700 |
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Hi Remgopal, On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:58:47AM -0700, Ramgopal Kota wrote:Now I want to have the rootfs (jffs) on flash. Is there any document which tells me how to do that ?As a learning exercise you could start by reading the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. This is a great document to give you some insight into a Unix filesystem. ...In addition, you should know that the kernel and device drivers may automatically create device special files in the /dev directory. The mtd layer is one of the components that does this. Automatic /dev file creation is normally done through the kernel hotplug framework. You can read more about this at kernel.org (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html) or the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev. -- David VomLehn, dvomlehn@cisco.com The opinions expressed herein are likely mine, but might not be my employer's... |
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