Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] ubi: Introduce read-only block devices on top of UBI volumes

Ezequiel Garcia
2014-02-28T14:56:59Z

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:29:07PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 09:39 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > This commit introduces read-only block device emulation on top of UBI volumes.
> >
> > Given UBI takes care of wear leveling and bad block management it's possible
> > to add a thin layer to enable block device access to UBI volumes.
> > This allows to use a block-oriented filesystem on a flash device.
> >
> > The UBI block devices are meant to be used in conjunction with any
> > regular, block-oriented file system (e.g. ext4), although it's primarily
> > targeted at read-only file systems, such as squashfs.
>
> Massaged a tiny bit and pushed to linux-ubifs.git, thanks!
>

Thanks for the massage!
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering