Release of UBIL: ubi with log

[Brijesh Singh]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Artem Bityutskiy
<Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:57 +0200, ext Corentin Chary wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:28 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>  It gives me great pleasure in sharing UBIL: ubi with log.  We have
>> >> added logging functionality to ubi for reducing mount time.
>> >> UBIL uses the "same source base of UBI". The logging functionality can
>> >> be added or removed at compile time using "make menuconfig option".
>> >>
>> >> We have seen mount time reduction of 50% in 1GB NAND. We are expecting
>> >> even better results for larger flash memories.
>> >>
>> >> The source code of UBIL can be found in the following git tree:
>> >> http://git.infradead.org/users/brijesh/ubi-2.6.git
>> >>
>> >
>> > Sounds interesting! However, I'm out of office till end of March, and
>> > won't be able to look closely at this. But hopefully others will try it.
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>> Didn't took the time  to read the code, I'll try to do so soon.
>> Could you tell us more about what you did and how it works ?
>> Is it similar to yaffs checkpoints ? When are the log written ?
>> What will happen if you try to mount something that used UBIL with a
>> kernel without UBIL support ?
>> Thanks,
>
> Right.
>
> And Brijesh, just go ahead, split your stuff on patches, and submit them
> to the MTD ML. Send your docs/URL to docs there as well.
>
> Please, do not wait, just go ahead and start pushing it out.
Thank you. We will rebase the git and start posting right away.