Read-only file systems using NAND/MTD

[Brian Norris]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:21:16PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Rod Campbell <rod.campbell at telosalliance.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there an update about implementing a read-only file system on NAND?  The
> > most recent discussion I could find was from May 2012:
> >
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-May/041200.html
> >
> > The conclusion seemed to be to use ubi underneath something like squashfs to
> > provide bad-block awareness.  Is this still the recommended solution?
> 
> Yes. Using the new UBI block driver this is trivial.

To expand on that:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_ubiblock

Brian