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fatls/fatload for NAND (partition)

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Has anyone tried/incorporated the use of the FAT tools to access NAND storage? I know one can use fatls on usb and mmc (which are "boot" devices), but it seems natural that one should be able to use the FAT tools on NAND as well, perhaps through some pseudo-device (that maps to some NAND partition(s)). This would allow Linux to set up some mtd partition(s) as vfat and U-boot to get to the same partition(s) as well.

Thanks for any input.

PL

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Has anyone tried/incorporated the use of the FAT tools to access NAND storage? I know one can use fatls on usb and mmc (which are "boot" devices), but it seems natural that one should be able to use the FAT tools on NAND as well, perhaps through some pseudo-device (that maps to some NAND partition(s)). This would allow Linux to set up some mtd partition(s) as vfat and U-boot to get to the same partition(s) as well.

You would need a flash translation layer in between the FAT filesystem and raw NAND.

Any reason not to use ubifs instead?

-Scott