[PATCH 0/2] RFC: Add support for UBI and UBIFS

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:15 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Artem Bityutskiy<dedekind at infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:38 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Here is two patch to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid
> >> With that, if you type "blkid" it will show you UBIFS filesystem.
> >>
> >> The thing is that I'm not sure this patch is really usefull as UBIFS
> >> is a "nodev" filesystem, and it doesn't deal with block devices.
> >>
> >> I first started theses patch to be able to do stuff like:
> >> mount /dev/ubi0_0 /mnt/test but we need to patch UBIFS for that.
> >
> > Should not be difficult to implement in UBIFS.
> >
> >> So, do you think we should be able to do that ? If it's ok, these
> >> two patch are a first step.
> >
> > No comments from my side, I do not use the library so I cannot
> > really comment on this.
> >
> 
> AFAIK mount(8) use this library to find the associated filesystem, so
> it's needed
> to remove the "-t ubifs".

Ah, this would be really cool to have then!

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)