can I use vfat filesystem on UBI layer?

Andreas Arnez arnez at vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 25 14:02:28 EDT 2006


"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at gmail.com> writes:
> I believe that is one of the intended goals.  A block layer needs to
> be added (much like mtdblock), and then one should be able to use
> vfat, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, etc.

A block layer like mtdblock should be offered.  This is one reason for
gluebi -- which presents a UBI volume as an mtd device.  Note,
however, that something like mtdblock is not very practical for
read/write file systems like vfat, because of its large (internal)
block size.

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Andreas Arnez






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