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From: Ryan Meulenkamp <Ryan.Meulenkamp@nedap.com>
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Subject: Shrink UBIFS
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Hi,


I'm planning to write an ioctl for shrinking a UBIFS to be able to resize t=
he volume its on and create another

volume because it is essential for our upgrade/migration flow. Do you guys =
have any advice for me? The

hard part is that LEB's that would fall outside the new size should be move=
d inside the new size. From what

I read, the garbage collection code could be used to  accomplish this, but =
it is not really possible to define

which LEB's to put where.


Thanks in advance!


Ryan