From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ocean.emcraft.com ([213.221.7.182]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1JEP3j-0005Fq-4l for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:08:59 +0000 Received: from [172.17.0.11] (helo=iron.emcraft.com) by ocean.emcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEP0j-00010K-CK for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:05:56 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline From: Yuri Tikhonov To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Block Device Emulation over UBI Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:57:18 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801141557.18349.yur@emcraft.com> List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello all, We are about to implement and then maintain a block device driver which is intended to work on the top of UBI and provide users with the block-device interface to the underlying Flash chips. The goal of this driver is to provide users with the possibility to easily organize reliable file storage in Flash memory chips (especially NAND Flash) using Flash-unaware file-systems like FAT, EXT2/3, etc (UBI is supposed to provide the necessary reliability using its features of wear-leveling and bad blocks handling). In many cases the ability to have the file-system formatted with, for example, FAT is a highly desirable feature of the embedded devices (e.g. for exporting the embedded storage via USB link to a Windows-based USB host), so we guess our work will be usefull for the embedded world. Any suggestions or comments as to possible issues we may run into on this road would be very appreciated. Regards, Yuri -- Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com