From: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd.eu>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Updating UBIFS rootfilesystem
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:16:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F474777.4080408@esd.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329141475.22240.151.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
On 02/13/2012 02:57 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:44 +0100, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there an elegant way to update an UBIFS rootfilesystem?
>>
>> Let's say I have enough flash space for my actual rootfilesystem
>> (rootfs1) and a new version (rootfs2). So while running from rootfs1
>> I updated rootfs2 volume with a new rootfilesystem.
>
> I you cannot update a mounted fs - you have to unmount it first. If you
> are able to do this, you should be able to ubirename.
So I was thinking that a ubirename is not really an update and expected the rename
op to work even on a mounted fs.
I solved the issue by booting an initramfs first.
There I do the rename "rootfs2" -> "rootfs1" and then switch root
to "rootfs1".
Matthias
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 12:44 Updating UBIFS rootfilesystem Matthias Fuchs
2012-02-13 13:57 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-24 8:14 ` Matthias Fuchs
2012-02-24 9:47 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-03-09 7:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-24 8:16 ` Matthias Fuchs [this message]
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