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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Mauri Sandberg <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi>
Cc: david oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>,
	 linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkfs.ubifs: Add option to minimize the amount of LEBs
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 11:16:01 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214686551.202632.1704536161145.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbce5a93-c3b8-45f4-9698-c76838ac5fea@ext.kapsi.fi>

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Mauri Sandberg" <maukka@ext.kapsi.fi>
>> Use case for the new option would be when you want to have a
>> non-mutable filesystem in a static ubifs volume and another
>> volume for writable data.
>> 
>> Currently you can find the minimal LEB count by running the
>> mkfs.ubifs once with too small max_leb_cnt. This patch uses
>> the already calculated minimal amount of LEBs as the max_leb_cnt
>> and then proceeds to create the image as usual.

[...]

> Friendly ping. Also bringing in Richard and David as I thought at least
> they could be relevant maintainers. Thanks.

Seems like a legit feature. But what will happen if somebody tries to
use a minimized UBIFS in rw-mode?
I fear then UBIFS will fail because it has not enough log LEBs or such?

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-06 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-29 13:56 [PATCH] mkfs.ubifs: Add option to minimize the amount of LEBs Mauri Sandberg
2024-01-06  6:49 ` Mauri Sandberg
2024-01-06 10:16   ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2024-01-06 14:46     ` Mauri Sandberg
2024-01-06 15:23       ` Richard Weinberger
2024-01-07  7:53         ` Mauri Sandberg
2024-01-07 12:54           ` Richard Weinberger

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