On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:37:45 roy basavaraju wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Currently i am having setup like NFS as a root file system. i want to
> create yaffs image for my user data on cygwin environment ( this is my
> requirement) and want to flash on specific mtdblock. then i just want to
> verify my yaffs image is working properly or not in flash.
>
>   the main goal is i want to check the yaffs image i created on cygwin
> works fine or not. i executed following steps like:
>
> cat /proc/mtd --> from this i came to know the mtd partition info and found
> mtd3 partition i can use to mount my image
>
> flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3
>
> mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt
>
> now i want to flash my yaffs.img file onto flash using command
>
> nandwrite mtd3 yaffs.img
>
> i am a new-bie to yaffs & MTD.. so please help me and correct me if i am
> doing any blunder..
>
> Waiting for your help!!!
>
> thanks & Regards,
> Ram


Why not try something like this:

#flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3     ("format" the flash for yaffs)
#mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt

Then just copy the desired directory tree from NFS onto the yaffs partition.