From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Ricard Wanderlof <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com>
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>,
"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/1] ubi: Add ubiblock driver
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:56:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121105636.4c8687e0@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211210626110.357@lnxricardw.se.axis.com>
Dear Ricard Wanderlof,
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:28:43 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> I don't want to diminish your work in any way, but what is the point of
> the ubiblock feature? Mtd block devices are really only used in order to
> give the mount/umount commands a block device, and for ubifs the device is
> specified in another way. So I suspect the intended usage for ubiblock is
> something else.
The idea, when David Wagner implemented this, was to be able to use
read-only block filesystems such as squashfs on top of a UBI volume.
squashfs provides an excellent compression ratio, which makes it
interesting.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-21 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 22:39 [RFC/PATCH 0/1] ubi: Add ubiblock driver Ezequiel Garcia
2012-11-21 5:28 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-11-21 9:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-11-21 10:00 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-11-21 10:05 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-24 21:02 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-11-25 7:36 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-11-30 11:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-12-02 17:39 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-12-03 0:58 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-12-03 19:33 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-12-03 21:03 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-11-30 11:18 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-30 11:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-21 10:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-21 10:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-21 10:42 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-11-21 10:42 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-11-30 11:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-30 11:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-30 11:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-30 11:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-11-30 20:43 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-11-30 20:43 ` Ezequiel Garcia
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