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Subject: Re: gluebi char vs block devices
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:50 -0500, Monte Copeland wrote:
> What is expected (correct) behavior when reading content of static UBI vo=
lumes?
>=20
> / # 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
>=20
> 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.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)