[Yaffs] [Yaffs-archive] Mount curiosity

[Nick Bane]

Interesting issue:

I mounted a usb DVD without specifying a file system eg "mount
/dev/scsi/..blah1../cd /mnt/hda" and to my surprise I found a copy of a
yaffs fs from /dev/mtdblock/1 mounted instead - after going through ext2
ext3 vfat etc and deciding that yaffs was its true fs.

It seems that yaffs assumes that it is only ever mounted on a mtd device and
that it only needs to glance at its minor number to work out which device to
use from which it checks to see if it is indeed a nand device.

In this case is decided that the "1" from the scsi block device meant
/dev/mtdblock/1 (that is my nand boot partition) and not letting the scsi
iso9660 filesystem mount as I expected.

Needs fixing - Charles?

Nick

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Nick Bane
Cambridge, UK.
+44(0)1954 719270




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