Release of UBIL: ubi with log

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 14:33 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> >> insmod ubi mtd=1,ubinize.
> >>  (Second parameter "ubinize" is introduced to avoid accidental loss of data.)
> >> insmod ubifs
> >> mount ubifs
> >
> > Why this ubinize parameter exists? Why you cannot detect empty media
> > just like UBI?
> 
> The idea was not to accidentally ubinize mtd partition.
> For example: the file system generally don't format empty partition on
> it's own. It is forced.

File system just never formats the media, so of course they never
corrupt anything. Utilities mkfs.ext3 and the like do this instead. 

In fact, you can thing of UBI the same way - it does not format, there
is ubiformat tool for that. Then, there is one single exception - empty
flash. It is just very handy to be able to attach it without ubiformat.
You can consider this as an additional usefuls feature.

And UBI does manage somehow to not corrupt anything. So the question was
- why UBIL cannot?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)