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

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 06:18:25 EST 2012


On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 11:05 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I think it is natural to always expand on the topic when calling
something dangerous and useless. Would you explain what you meant?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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