From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751642Ab2CGVCx (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:02:53 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:38791 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894Ab2CGVCw (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:02:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4F57CCF4.6040902@linutronix.de> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:02:44 +0100 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120215 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dedekind1@gmail.com CC: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] MTD: UBI: Add checkpoint on-chip layout References: <1329250006-22944-1-git-send-email-rw@linutronix.de> <1329250006-22944-2-git-send-email-rw@linutronix.de> <1331136589.3463.3.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1331136589.3463.3.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 07.03.2012 17:09, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy: > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:06 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Specify the on-chip checkpoint layout. >> The checkpoint consists of two major parts. >> A super block (identified via UBI_CP_SB_VOLUME_ID) and >> zero or more data blocks (identified via UBI_CP_DATA_VOLUME_ID). >> Data blocks are only used if whole checkpoint information does not fit >> into the super block. > > And superblock is also a more or less standard name used by file-system. > I easily imagine difficulties and confusion when discussing UBIFS and > UBI and mixing UBI and UBIFS supersblocks up. IMHO, anything unique is > much better, even if it does not make much sense. E.g., "boss block" or > "pomo block" (pomo = boss in Finnish). > > Would you consider picking a different name as well please? > Will do. Thanks, //richard