Regarding UBI scalability
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind at infradead.org
Wed Feb 4 02:41:40 EST 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 12:27 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind at infradead.org> writes:
>
> > For UBI2 I would just forget about static volumes support. They
> > are not so necessary, and a rare user needs them
>
> I store my kernel, the 2nd level bootloader and bootenv in such
> volumes. Having the number of used bytes available without
> introducing special storage formats simplifies things in the
> initial bootloader and when writing images into the volumes.
>
> This is nothing which can not be changed, but static volumes are
> not a rare needs imo.
Ok, thanks for this information. Probably static volumes are not that
useless as I thought.
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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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