Block device emulation on top of ubi volumes with read/write support

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 21.01.2016 um 01:51 schrieb Charles Godson:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> wrote:
>>
>> What is your fear?
>> If your NAND is loosing random blocks you are in trouble anyways.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> //richard
> More along the lines of having software blow away first 2K (or
> similar) of my mtd partition (sw bug). I think I would lose everything
> in that case, right? When I have multiple mtd partitions, I would lose
> only one of my file systems. However, all of this probably comes down
> to having backup images, if high availability and reliability is
> required.

If your software kills random blocks you're better with multiple
partitions due to backups...But as the kernel is software too... ;)

Strictly speaking you'd not lose everything after say 2k are gone.
But have to recover the data manually. :)

Thanks,
//richard