From: Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi@mindspring.com>
To: Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com>
Cc: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Partition support for FAT file system
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48593F4C.7000808@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r6au4rt4.fsf@xl5.calivar.com>
Nick Garnett wrote:
> Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi@mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> As a longer term enhancement, supporting multiple partitions would be
>> nice, but ideas on how to resolve the devs/mtab idea of a disk to
>> different partitions would be appreciated.
>>
>
>
> This is already handled in the io/disk package. You mount /dev/diskN/M
> for partition M of disk N and /dev/diskN/0 for the whole disk.
>
> Partitioning is independent of filesystem type, so it must be done at
> a lower level that the FATFS.
>
>
Ah, ok, thanks, Nick. I misunderstood that terminology in the IDE case,
mistaking it as 'N' for the controller and 'M' for the disk on that
controller. This makes sense.
So then it's the IDE driver that should scan the partition table on the
physical disk and export separate mount points for each? Would that be
the proper way to go?
Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 9:36 Strange buildsystem behaviour Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 9:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-06-18 10:07 ` Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 10:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2008-06-18 10:58 ` Lars Poeschel
2008-06-18 16:26 ` Partition support for FAT file system Frank Pagliughi
2008-06-18 16:44 ` Nick Garnett
2008-06-18 17:01 ` Frank Pagliughi [this message]
2008-06-18 19:26 ` Nick Garnett
2008-06-20 13:56 ` Frank Pagliughi
2008-06-18 19:28 ` Frank Pagliughi
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