[PATCH 1/1] ubi: Introduce block devices for UBI volumes

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:51:57AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
[..]
> 
> > > This I think it's a bad idea to artificially remove some features
> > > if they're not broken.
> > 
> > Your arguments have convinced me, let's keep it and hope the best.
> 

Let me add that keeping the write support follows the whole "mechanism,
not policy" kernel motto, doesn't it?

Regarding users, well the option looks like this:

  [ ]     Enable write support (DANGEROUS)

I think any user would think twice before enabling it.

Regaring the maintainability: the implementation is *really* simple,
and won't add much complexity.

Let's not prevent someone from divising a wear level aware block filesystem
and using it on top of ubiblock. And perhaps f2fs already does a good job!
Keeping this support would allow someone to take the lead and get some real
numbers on that.

As I said, the implementation is so simple that it seems a pity to just
drop it.

BTW, v5 (this is v4 which I forgot to add to the subject) is already on the
oven, with the fixes pointed out by Richard.
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com