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Subject: Re: Minor Error in UBIFS FAQ
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:07 -0800, Philip Rakity wrote:
> Could not find FAQ to generate patch.  Did we mean UBIFS images (see belo=
w)
>=20
> How to create an UBIFS image?
> Creating UBIFS images might be a little trickier than creating JFFS2 imag=
es.
> First of all, you have to understand that UBIFS works on top of UBI which=
 works
> on top or MTD which basically represents your raw flash. This means, that=
 if
> you need to create an image which would be flashed to the raw flash, you =
should
> first create an UBIFS image, than UBI image. In other words, the process =
has 2
> steps.
> However, as described here,
> UBI has a volume update facility and there is an ubiupdatevol utility
> for this. So you may update UBI volumes on your running system as well.
> In this case you only need an UBIFS image, and you do not have to make th=
e
> UBI image, i.e., the process has only 1 step in this case.
> So, there are 2 utilities:
> 	* mkfs.ubifs which creates UBIFS images;
> 	* ubinize which creates UBI images out of UBI images.  <=3D=3D=3D=3D ERR=
OR  out of UBIFS images

The MTD web site is available here:
git://git.infradead.org/mtd-www.git
or
http://git.infradead.org/mtd-www.git

I've just fix the typo you have pointed out:
http://git.infradead.org/mtd-www.git?a=3Dcommit;h=3D39df2684657ab982c96d769=
d761cbb84e23ece80

Thank you for this notice, typo and "bad English" fixes are appreciated.

--=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)