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Connor Angel

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« on: January 23, 2005, 09:00:20 am »
Why is it that the default install of OpenZaurus has mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, and even mkfs.minix, but no mkfs.jffs2?

Reading over the posts here, it seems that most people use ext2 on their SD/MMC cards instead of jffs2 which makes no sense to me either.

Finally i'd just like to point out that the mtd-tools package in debian has mkfs.jffs2 in it in case anybody is wondering where to find it. Not much of a help to windows users, but maybe there is an OZ package for it too.
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2005, 10:00:45 am »
I recommend doing a bit of research for how jffs2 works. jffs2 on SD cards is pure nonsense since the card controller does exactly what jffs2 does on mtd devices.

Anyway, the OZ package containing mkfs.jffs2 is called mtd-utils.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2005, 10:01:37 am by Mickeyl »
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2005, 11:07:42 am »
I always thought that was detected by mkfs.jffs2 and only the other flash friendly features would be used in that case. That makes sense though, thanks.
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