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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: John Burch <jburch@vincisystems.com>
Subject: Re: reach of jffs2 within image vs. partition
Date: 02 Apr 2003 15:04:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049292292.2652.4.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030402140304.GA752@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:03, Jörn Engel wrote:
> In my experience, better always use images of the same size as the
> partition.
> 
> You don't *have* to, but then some will figure out how to not erase
> the partition, write the image to it, remount the partition and find
> some old data in the filesystem that was supposed to be erased.
> 
> Give people the option to shoot themselves in the foot and eventually
> someone will do it - and blame you. ;)

Oh yeah, that too -- good point :)

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-02 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-02 13:06 reach of jffs2 within image vs. partition John Burch
2003-04-02 13:11 ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-02 13:41   ` John Burch
2003-04-02 13:44     ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-02 14:03       ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 14:04         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-04-02 14:13 ` Thomas Gleixner

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