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rvilarl 10-24-2004 12:53 PM
block device raw access
 
Is it allowed to use open/close read/write and seek on a block device directly? If not is there an easy way of accessing the block device just for reading and writing?

I am using the MTD subsystem mounting a JFFS file system on mtdblock0. However JFFS is using too much room on the flash device and I would like to use the block device directly (ie without mounting it). I know I can do it using the associated char device mtd0 but buffering is not used and it gets too slow.

Thanks


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