Re: Release of UBIL: ubi with log

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:51 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 14:33 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> >> >> insmod ubi mtd=1,ubinize.
> >> >>  (Second parameter "ubinize" is introduced to avoid accidental loss of data.)
> >> >> insmod ubifs
> >> >> mount ubifs
> >> >
> >> > Why this ubinize parameter exists? Why you cannot detect empty media
> >> > just like UBI?
> >>
> >> The idea was not to accidentally ubinize mtd partition.
> >> For example: the file system generally don't format empty partition on
> >> it's own. It is forced.
> >
> > File system just never formats the media, so of course they never
> > corrupt anything. Utilities mkfs.ext3 and the like do this instead.
> >
> > In fact, you can thing of UBI the same way - it does not format, there
> > is ubiformat tool for that. Then, there is one single exception - empty
> > flash. It is just very handy to be able to attach it without ubiformat.
> > You can consider this as an additional usefuls feature.
> >
> > And UBI does manage somehow to not corrupt anything. So the question was
> > - why UBIL cannot?
> 
> Personally, I wasn't sure if it is nice idea to find empty flash and
> then format it on it's own.
> 
> UBIL certainly can do this. I will add this, if you find it useful.

Well, many people found it very useful. I found it very useful for
development as well. And since it already exists and is used, it is nice
to make UBIL consistent with it.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)