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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Shibin George <george.shibin1993@gmail.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: gluebi vs. ubi-volume mapping
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Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2019, 13:42:11 CET schrieb Shibin George:
> > BTW: Why are you using glubi+mtdblock at all? To support squashfs we
> > have ubiblock.
> > That way you can use read-only block-based filesystems directly on top
> > of UBI without glubi
> > and mtdblock.
> ubiblock, being read-only, didn't satisfy my requirement.
> The device I am working on needs to have block-level software upgrade
> capability.
> So gluebi was the best solution that I could find that can run block-based
> filesystem.

Usually you don't want such a deep stacking on an embedded system.
But you are aware of ubiupdatevol?

Thanks,
//richard