From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Robert Homann <homann@bury.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dedekind1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Resizing of an existing UBIFS
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBF2DF7.8030809@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBB3E7F.3080807@bury.com>
On 22/05/12 10:21, Robert Homann wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 08:53 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>>> I have a short question: Is it possible to expand the size of a UBIFS
>>> without creating a new image file or reformatting from scratch?
>>> ...
>>
>> Unfortunately there are not tools for this :-( You could write one,
>> though :-)
>
> OK, thanks. Actually, writing such a tool is not completely out of
> question in my case... How hard do you think it would be to implement it?
> Would such a tool simply change some values in a few structures or would it
> have to do something much more complicated? Or could some existing tool from
> mtd-utils be extended to do the job?
Before writing a tool you should check how much overhead there is in simply
making max-leb-cnt as big as you might ever want.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 6:41 Resizing of an existing UBIFS Robert Homann
2012-05-22 6:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 7:21 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 8:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 9:25 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 9:40 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-22 10:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 11:11 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 11:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 7:00 ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2012-05-25 7:49 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-25 8:00 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-28 9:09 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 10:10 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-01 11:48 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 19:47 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 7:58 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-04 9:35 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 9:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 10:12 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-26 14:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-27 20:24 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-28 5:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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