Re: Help with using JFFS2 as root filesystem

From: smayadewi@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 8 May 2007 06:56:02 -0700

On May 8, 5:14 am, Michael Schnell
<mschnell_at_lumino_dot...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have used Ramdisk based filesystem with
no problem...

Why not boot like you already do and use JFF2 as another file system
sitting on MTD for an unused area of the flash chip.

-Michael

Hi Michael,

If I want to use JFFS2 as another file system in addition to the
Ramdisk based file system, how do I link to it once the Linux is
started? Or does it have to be done during the kernel configuration?
Thanks.

Shirley

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