UBI/ubifs problem

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

>> I think what I'm thinking about is that in the specialized case of ubifs
>> used for a read-only file system, such as a root file system (without
>> /etc, /var, and so on), it would be possible for mkfs.ubifs to create a
>> file system, and use as many LEBs as it needs for the actual data. On a
>> read-only file system there doesn't even have to be a journal, although I
>> don't know if that is possible.
>
> Well, I'd accept a patch which added a --optimize-for-ro option which
> would prepare a file-system with the smallest journal size.

Can the journal be eliminated completely or does something in ubifs 
require there to be a journal at all times, albeit small?

/Ricard
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