Unbounded update to a UBI volume

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 23:45:31 PST 2015


On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:30 -0800, Nam Nguyen wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> The argument to IOCVOLUP is the size of the update.  In case of an
> update from a stream, such as from a BZip'ed source, this size is
> often not known ahead of time.  Is there a way to programmatically
> clear the update marker, without having to pad the volume up to its
> size, hence saving unnecessary writes?

I guess you'd need to implement a separate interface for this. It would
work a bit differently, and it would not work for static volumes.




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