From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1MRPs3-0003BY-CR for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:15:35 +0000 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so69033bwz.18 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:15:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1247745430.11353.133.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1247650724-16288-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1247745430.11353.133.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <71cd59b00907160515j4e0e2429he21ae36a553f31bd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC: Add support for UBI and UBIFS From: Corentin Chary To: dedekind@infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:38 +0200, 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. > > Should not be difficult to implement in UBIFS. > >> So, do you think we should be able to do that ? If it's ok, these >> two patch are a first step. > > No comments from my side, I do not use the library so I cannot > really comment on this. > AFAIK mount(8) use this library to find the associated filesystem, so it's needed to remove the "-t ubifs". -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net - http://uffs.org