UBI_READWRITE constraint when opening volumes to rename

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 06:10:20 PDT 2014


On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 14:42 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> BTW: one corner case is the volume delete operation.
> It touches meta data and LEBs. Currently you need exclusive mode for this.
> IMHO it makes sense to deny metaonly mode if an UBI volume is opened in exclusive mode.

Oh, yes, the 'delete' semantics is that volume goes away and all the
space it had reserved becomes available, so the data it contained is
thrown away, so the operation does affect the data.

Artem.




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