Re: Release of UBIL: ubi with log

[Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:57 +0200, ext Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:28 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>  It gives me great pleasure in sharing UBIL: ubi with log.  We have
> >> added logging functionality to ubi for reducing mount time.
> >> UBIL uses the "same source base of UBI". The logging functionality can
> >> be added or removed at compile time using "make menuconfig option".
> >>
> >> We have seen mount time reduction of 50% in 1GB NAND. We are expecting
> >> even better results for larger flash memories.
> >>
> >> The source code of UBIL can be found in the following git tree:
> >> http://git.infradead.org/users/brijesh/ubi-2.6.git
> >>
> >
> > Sounds interesting! However, I'm out of office till end of March, and
> > won't be able to look closely at this. But hopefully others will try it.
> >
> 
> Hi,
> Didn't took the time  to read the code, I'll try to do so soon.
> Could you tell us more about what you did and how it works ?
> Is it similar to yaffs checkpoints ? When are the log written ?
> What will happen if you try to mount something that used UBIL with a
> kernel without UBIL support ?
> Thanks,

Right. 

And Brijesh, just go ahead, split your stuff on patches, and submit them
to the MTD ML. Send your docs/URL to docs there as well.

Please, do not wait, just go ahead and start pushing it out.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)