Resizing of an existing UBIFS

Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter at intel.com
Mon May 28 05:09:40 EDT 2012


On 25/05/12 11:00, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 May 2012, Robert Homann wrote:
> 
>> It is definitely a lot simpler to just set this parameter to some big
>> value and generate new images from scratch since the overhead in space
>> consumption is not an issue in this case. But let's say, in my case the
>> purpose of using such a resizing tool is not space optimization, but
>> fixing a former decision...
> 
> I think this is a most important point. Whatever sizing strategy and volume
> sizes that are decided upon, one can be sure that a couple of years down the
> line differing circumstances will require a re-think of that strategy, no
> matter how well founded the decision was to start with.

Unless you set max_leb_cnt to match the media size.

The point is resizing when max_leb_cnt is not changed is much simpler.





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