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From: Thomas Petazzoni
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Cc: Miquel Raynal ,
Richard Weinberger ,
Vignesh Raghavendra ,
Thomas Petazzoni
Subject: [PATCH mtd-www] doc/ubi.xml: clarify from the start that block device on UBI is read-only
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:17:28 +0200
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In the introduction, the sentence that introduces ubiblock might let
one think that any read/write block filesystem can be used on top of
UBI, which is wrong. So clarify from the start that this is read-only.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni
---
doc/ubi.xml | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ubi.xml b/doc/ubi.xml
index 1290735..21bbd00 100644
--- a/doc/ubi.xml
+++ b/doc/ubi.xml
@@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ similar because:
mechanisms).
-UBI also provides a block device that allows regular, block-oriented
-file systems to be mounted on top of an UBI volume. This is possible because UBI
-handles bad-blocks transparently.
+UBI also provides a read-only block device that allows regular, block-oriented
+file systems to be mounted on top of an UBI volume, but only for read-only
+operation. This is possible because UBI handles bad-blocks transparently.
There is an additional driver called gluebi which emulates MTD
devices on top of UBI volumes. This looks a little strange, because UBI works
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