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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctl
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:28:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080125152829.591def16@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080124165453.30169.40332.sendpatchset@golum>

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:54:53 +0200
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> wrote:

> >From e405cf1dc645e7931df0e47ee7408d5251e2d9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:15:14 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctl
> 
> We have to be able to change individual LEBs for utilities like
> ubifsck, ubifstune. For example, ubifsck has to be able to fix
> errors on the media, ubifstune has to be able to change the
> the superblock, hence this ioctl.

Could you explain a bit more?  What exactly does "atomic" mean?

This seems like it's similar to volume update, only on a LEB level
right? If so, could you make volume update just use this or somehow
combine them?

Maybe I've just been away from UBI too long.  It sounds cool, but I
don't fully understand what the intention is.

josh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24 16:54 [PATCH] UBI: introduce atomic LEB change ioctl Artem Bityutskiy
2008-01-24 16:54 ` [PATCH] UBI: implement " Artem Bityutskiy
2008-01-25 21:28 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-01-28 16:22   ` [PATCH] UBI: introduce " Artem Bityutskiy

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