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

Jörn Engel
2007-03-21T12:35:53Z

On Wed, 21 March 2007 12:57:42 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:35 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Even if such flashes still contain a bootloader and a kernel, that will
> > occupy less than 1% of the device. Wear leveling across the device is
> > fairly pointless here. This is what I designed LogFS for.
>
> Still you need to have a solution for handling bitflips in those
> bootloader and kernel areas.

Correct. It may make sense to use UBI for that, I don't know. What I
do know is that UBI cannot make wear leveling decisions as well as
LogFS.

And that is all I care about wrt. this discussion.

Jörn

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