[RFC/PATCH 0/1] ubi: Add ubiblock driver

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 21 05:05:18 EST 2012


Dear Ricard Wanderlof,

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:00:49 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:

> > The idea, when David Wagner implemented this, was to be able to use
> > read-only block filesystems such as squashfs on top of a UBI volume.
> > squashfs provides an excellent compression ratio, which makes it
> > interesting.
> 
> Yes, I agree, that would be useful.

Yes, but only the read-only side of ubiblock. The write side is
dangerous and useless, IMO.

Thomas
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