From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1MiENK-0003Dk-Ez for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:25:23 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:25:10 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: Corentin Chary Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for UBI and UBIFS Message-ID: <20090831212510.GG1466@nb.net.home> References: <1251112316-18971-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <200908312103.59906.corentincj@iksaif.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908312103.59906.corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: Theodore Ts'o , util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:03:59PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote: > 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. Sorry, I had vacation last week. I'll review your patches this week. Karel -- Karel Zak