From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Robert Homann <homann@bury.com>
Subject: Re: Resizing of an existing UBIFS
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 13:19:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337681963.2483.140.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1205221138410.4247@lnxricardw.se.axis.com>
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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 11:40 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Robert Homann wrote:
>
> > On 05/22/2012 10:10 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >
> >> amend the indexing information. This is not a simple task, but doable.
> >
> > Thank you a lot for the quick answers! Looks like I need to learn a lot
> > of details about UBIFS, should I really decide to make such a tool. I'll
> > think it through again... :)
>
> It would also be nice if such a tool could reduce the size of a UBIFS
> volume (given that there is enough free space to do so). That could be
> useful if the contents of a flash at a given point needed to be compacted
> for make room for an additional volume for instance.
Yeah, if someone wrote such a tool, it would make sense to support
shrinking as well, because it is roughly a similar thin - you need to
relocate data from the end, amend the index and probably some other
UBIFS data-structures.
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 6:41 Resizing of an existing UBIFS Robert Homann
2012-05-22 6:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 7:21 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 8:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 9:25 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 9:40 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-22 10:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-05-22 11:11 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 11:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 7:00 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-05-25 7:49 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-25 8:00 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-28 9:09 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 10:10 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-01 11:48 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 19:47 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 7:58 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-04 9:35 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 9:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 10:12 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-26 14:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-27 20:24 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-28 5:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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