[PATCH 0/3] Add support for UBI and UBIFS

Corentin Chary corentincj at iksaif.net
Mon Aug 31 15:03:59 EDT 2009


On Monday 24 August 2009 13:11:53 Corentin Chary wrote:
> Hi,
> Here is some patchs to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid.
>
> UBIFS works on top of UBI volumes, there are 3 subsystems involved:
>   * MTD subsystem, which provides uniform interface to access flash chips.
>     MTD provides an notion of MTD devices (e.g., /dev/mtd0) which basically
> represents raw flash; * UBI subsystem, which is a wear-leveling and volume
> management system for flash devices; UBI works on top of MTD devices and
> provides a notion of UBI volumes (e.g.m /dev/ubi0_0); * UBIFS file system,
> which works on top of UBI volumes.
>
> The first patch add support for UBI volumes, which are represented as char
> devices in /dev/. This allow to probe for UBIFS filesystem on UBI volumes.
>
> Thanks,

Hi,
No feedback, but I forgot to CC Karel and Theodore.
I've got another series of patch for the old e2fsprogs, do you want me to send 
it ?

Thanks,

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