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Subject: Re: mkfs.ubifs: device table support
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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Hi,

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 17:24 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Are there any plans to add support for a device table in mkfs.ubifs,
> similar to mkfs.jffs2, genext2fs etc?

Not sure what is this for actually :-) Could you please elaborate?

I glanced at mkfs.jffs2.c it does not look difficult, so we may
implement it if you need - no problem.

> Otherwise the image must be made as root or using fakeroot I think.

Yeah, we usually generate rootfs images as root.

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