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RE: mkfs.jffs2 for Windows
- From: "Robb, Sam" <sam dot robb at timesys dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:13:15 -0500
- Subject: RE: mkfs.jffs2 for Windows
> > I have been searching the mailing lists and the web for a
> version of
> > mkfs.jffs2 that will run on Windows. I do not believe one
> is available
>
> Correct. Cygwin relies entirely on the underlying 'doze OS
> for file-system
> support, device drivers, and so on. Since there is no 'doze
> support for jffs2,
> there is no way to format and mount such a filesystem under cygwin.
For the record: mkfs.jffs2 takes as input a directory and an
option device table file, and turns that directly into a file
containing a jffs2 filesystem. So, OS support really isn't
required.
Getting mkfs.jffs2 to build & run under Cygwin is not all that
difficult. I've done it before, and gotten permission from my
employer to package it for Cygwin - what I lack at the moment
is time :-/ Until then, if anyone is interested in helping
push this through as a proper Cygwin package, I'd be happy to
talk to them about it.
-Samrobb
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