Re: [PATCH] block: support mtd:<name> syntax for block devices

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On Fri, 2025-05-16 at 00:14 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 08:51:56AM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > This is the same name scheme JFFS2 and UBI uses.
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> Great to know, but compltely fails to explain what you are doing
> here given that this is a block device mount helper used by file
> systems using block and not mtd devices and thus the only obvious
> effect would be to crash the mount if actually used.

Right, was very brief

This enables mounts like so:

   mount -t squashfs mtd:appfs /tmp

where mtd:appfs comes from:

 # >  cat /proc/mtd 
dev:    size   erasesize  name
...
mtd22: 00750000 00010000 "appfs"




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