From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com ([209.85.219.209]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1MiCBA-0007yK-GT for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:04:40 +0000 Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so1814338ewy.27 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Corentin Chary From: Corentin Chary To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for UBI and UBIFS Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:03:59 +0200 References: <1251112316-18971-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> In-Reply-To: <1251112316-18971-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908312103.59906.corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , Karel Zak , dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Monday 24 August 2009 13:11:53 Corentin Chary wrote: > Hi, > Here is some patchs to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid. > > UBIFS works on top of UBI volumes, there are 3 subsystems involved: > * MTD subsystem, which provides uniform interface to access flash chips. > MTD provides an notion of MTD devices (e.g., /dev/mtd0) which basically > represents raw flash; * UBI subsystem, which is a wear-leveling and volume > management system for flash devices; UBI works on top of MTD devices and > provides a notion of UBI volumes (e.g.m /dev/ubi0_0); * UBIFS file system, > which works on top of UBI volumes. > > The first patch add support for UBI volumes, which are represented as char > devices in /dev/. This allow to probe for UBIFS filesystem on UBI volumes. > > Thanks, Hi, No feedback, but I forgot to CC Karel and Theodore. I've got another series of patch for the old e2fsprogs, do you want me to send it ? Thanks, -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net