[PATCH v7 1/3] ubi: Introduce read-only block devices on top of UBI volumes

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 09:39 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> This commit introduces read-only block device emulation on top of UBI volumes.
> 
> Given UBI takes care of wear leveling and bad block management it's possible
> to add a thin layer to enable block device access to UBI volumes.
> This allows to use a block-oriented filesystem on a flash device.
> 
> The UBI block devices are meant to be used in conjunction with any
> regular, block-oriented file system (e.g. ext4), although it's primarily
> targeted at read-only file systems, such as squashfs.

Massaged a tiny bit and pushed to linux-ubifs.git, thanks!


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Artem Bityutskiy