Grow UBI device?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Ricard,

In message <alpine.DEB.2.00.1310091725590.28562 at lnxricardw.se.axis.com> you wrote:
> 
> I just tested it since I have a UBI system just beside me, by erasing and 
> then writing zeros to a block (just to put non-UBI data in it) and 
> restarting the system (the partition in question contains the volume with 
> the root file system in it, so it is attached by the kernel during its 
> boot). The result was that UBI didn't give any error or warning messages 
> during boot, but a subsequent nanddump after boot revealed that the 
> zeroed blocks now contained valid UBI headers, so, without looking at the 
> source, it seems that UBI really does manage this fairly silently.

Thanks a lot, much appreciated!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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