[PATCH 00/13] UBI reliability improvements

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 14:29:55 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 11:54 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is a set of patches which should improve UBI reliability. I wrote them
> during my trip to LinuxCon Brazil.
> 
> Patches 1-5 should be interesting for Matthieu CASTET - they improve -EUCLEAN
> errors handling a little.
> 
> Patches 6-13 should be interesting for Matthew L. Creech - they presimably have
> to help in catching why in his setup UBIFS refers unmapped LEB. I'm not sure
> they will help, but there is a chance - my theory is that UBI decides that the
> LEB is corrupted and wipes it. With this patch-set UBI should instead preserve
> corrupted LEBs, so we could take a look what happened.
> 
> Please, reveiw, test. I tested them a little as well, but not extensively.

OK, although no one reviewed / tested this so far, I'm pushing this to
the ubi-2.6.git / master tree.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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