Ubi2- using NandSim for simulating flash and mounting ubi.

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hi,

sorry, I am not sure understand the question.

On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:46 +0530, Shweta Shetty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To test ubi2 we intend to use NANDSIM. However we are facing certain problems.
> 
> From what we have understood, the method of using NANDSIM is :
> 1>create an empty flash device (By default this uses the ram memory
> but we can allocate other by the cache_file option)
> 2>mount ubi on it
> 3>mount ubifs on it
> => (Here we can load the previously stored image)

If you want to write some pre-created image (e.g., created with
mkfs.ubifs/ubinize) or previously saved image (e.g., you dumped
your /dev/mtdX to a file previously), then you have to do this _before_
attaching the MTD device to UBI. IOW, you have to do this between steps
1 and 2.

> 4>use it
> 5>while unmounting save the image on permanant storage

After you have unmounted everything, you can save it, yes.

> So as we can see, though NANDSIM can be effectively used for
> simulating flash , it is of limited use in our project for testing
> mount time as every time only the empty device is mounted.

No. You can write your contents there before mounting.

> From the ubi code that we have now studied , there is a flag set for
> an empty device and in such case , all the system does is that it
> initialises all its data structures.

It does this _only_ if you feed it an empty flash. Do not feed it an
empty flash, feed it a formatted flash, then it will not initialize it.

> Hence we cannot show the
> performance of our project on NANDSIM.

Well, of course in any case, performance is better shown on a real
device.

> Our we missing some crucial point?
> We would be grateful for clarification.

Not sure I clarified, because I did not really understand the question,
but HTH.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)