UBIFS: media format changes

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 08:32:30 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:37 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as we have announced UBIFS, it is good idea to notify people
> who may try to use it about media format changes.

Should probably send this to lkml since you posted patches there.

> We now store nanoseconds in [amc]time in inodes, not just seconds,
> and the latest UBIFS is incompatible to the previous versions,
> which means it will refuse mounting older images.
> 
> You should also update mkfs.ubifs utility.

Is there a ubifs.fsck utility?  If so, could it be made to convert the
old media format to the new?  Or am I living in a dream world? :)

josh




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