[PATCH] UBIFS: Add an error code if the compr is not present

Corentin Chary corentin.chary at gmail.com
Mon May 25 04:33:48 EDT 2009


On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Artem Bityutskiy
<dedekind at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:52 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> For information, this bug was triggered when running an userspace
>> version of ubifs (code available soon).
>> We used the original ubifs to format the partition, but our version
>> didn't support the lzo compressor (now, it do).
>> Then, valgrind/gdb to get a backtrace and "voila".
>
> Userspace ubifs version. Wow! I wonder how it performs comparing
> to the kernel space one.

Well, there is now big change in the code. For performance, it'll
depends of the fuse overhead. We'll see.
The big question is "how writeback will performs".

For the moment it's read-only (except for creating the default
filsystem), in fact our mkfs is just: erase all, mount, unmount.

-- 
Corentin Chary
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