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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Monte Copeland <catboatmonte@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: gluebi char vs block devices
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:19:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223025596.8051.70.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fc50b580810010750g5e817923of9a43f1caaa807da@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:50 -0500, Monte Copeland wrote:
> What is expected (correct) behavior when reading content of static UBI volumes?
> 
> / # cat /sys/class/ubi/ubi0_6/name
> kernel_0
> / # cat /sys/class/ubi/ubi0_6/data_bytes
> 3149958
> / # cat /dev/mtd/kernel_0 | wc -c
> 3149958
> / # cat /dev/mtdblock/kernel_0 | wc -c
> 3149824
> 
> On my older UBI platform, the byte count from the
> mtdblock dev is truncated down to an even multiple
> of 512.

Monte,

I am not sure if you satisfied with my answer. But you may
glance at 'ubi_create_gluebi()' function and play with what
we assign to mtd->size.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 14:50 gluebi char vs block devices Monte Copeland
2008-10-03  8:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-10-03  9:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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