Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images

Jörn Engel
2007-03-26T11:35:09Z

On Mon, 26 March 2007 13:49:06 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> >
> > Logical volume management can just as easily move its management
> > information into a table, instead of having it spread across all blocks.
> > Blocks can keep their original size. Since you have to scan flash
> > anyway, you can also scan for a table, compare a magical number and do
> > some extra check to protect yourself against a UBI image inside some
> > logical volume. No big deal.
>
> First off, I see these no big deal statements for years already, and no
> decent implementation proved by usage in real world. Could we please,
> move these academic discussions to another thread?

You could wait a day, then reread what I wrote. Maybe you will notice
that what I wrote is not identical to what we have discussed about a
year ago and you seem to have read.

You may also want to reread this:
||[ This was not a request for UBI to be changed. The only purpose was to
||illustrate that LogFS is not broken. The previous thread suggested
||otherwise and I just couldn't leave it at that. ]

Jörn

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