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On 07/15/2009 12:38 PM, Corentin Chary wrote:
> Hi,
> Here is two patch to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid
> With that, if you type "blkid" it will show you UBIFS filesystem.
>
> The thing is that I'm not sure this patch is really usefull as UBIFS
> is a "nodev" filesystem, and it doesn't deal with block devices.
>
> I first started theses patch to be able to do stuff like:
> mount /dev/ubi0_0 /mnt/test but we need to patch UBIFS for that.
>
> So, do you think we should be able to do that ? If it's ok, these
> two patch are a first step.

Theo,

what do you think about this? The feature sounds very useful for
our small comunity.

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Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)