[PATCH 0/3] Add support for UBI and UBIFS

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Mon Aug 31 17:25:10 EDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:03:59PM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Monday 24 August 2009 13:11:53 Corentin Chary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Here is some patchs to add support for UBI and UBIFS in libblkid.
> >
> > UBIFS works on top of UBI volumes, there are 3 subsystems involved:
> >   * MTD subsystem, which provides uniform interface to access flash chips.
> >     MTD provides an notion of MTD devices (e.g., /dev/mtd0) which basically
> > represents raw flash; * UBI subsystem, which is a wear-leveling and volume
> > management system for flash devices; UBI works on top of MTD devices and
> > provides a notion of UBI volumes (e.g.m /dev/ubi0_0); * UBIFS file system,
> > which works on top of UBI volumes.
> >
> > The first patch add support for UBI volumes, which are represented as char
> > devices in /dev/. This allow to probe for UBIFS filesystem on UBI volumes.
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> Hi,
> No feedback, but I forgot to CC Karel and Theodore.

 Sorry, I had vacation last week. I'll review your patches this week.

    Karel

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