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From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	adrian.hunter@intel.com, Heinz.Egger@linutronix.de,
	thomas.wucher@linutronix.de, shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, tim.bird@am.sony.com, Marius.Mazarel@ugal.ro,
	nyoushchenko@mvista.com
Subject: Re: UBI fastmap updates
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:11:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345209115.27859.84.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341836323-43916-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>

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On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 14:18 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> This is the next round of UBI fastmap updates.
> It fixes all issues pointed out by Shmulik. :-)
> 
> If you want to test fastmap you can use my git repo:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubi2.git ubi2/v17

One thing which just came to my mind why looking at other MTD e-mails. I
do not know if it is relevant for fastmap or not, just want you to
check.

In UBIFS we have we have the "fixup" feature which is used to
work-around dumb flashers which are present in many factories:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_free_space_fixup

This is because the "correct" UBI flasher should be able to skip empty
space when flashing, see here:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_flasher_algo

So with this fixup flag UBIFS will basically read all its eraseblocks
which have empty spece which it will use, and write them back. Just to
make the empty space writable again. This is done only once on the very
first boot.

We do not do anything like this in UBI because UBI does not need this,
it does not have any complex data structures on the media.

With fastmap - I am unsure. I think it is not a problem, because
probably you never append more data, you just re-write everything,
right?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 12:18 UBI fastmap updates Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/7] UBI: Fastmap: Fix lock imbalance in case of an error Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/7] UBI: Fastmap: Get rid of find_fastmap switch Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 3/7] UBI: Fastmap: Fix memory leak in error path Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 4/7] UBI: Fastmap: Fix double free " Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 5/7] UBI: Fastmap: Kerneldoc fixes Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 6/7] UBI: Fastmap: Make sure that find_wl_entry() never returns NULL Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09 12:18 ` [PATCH 7/7] UBI: Fastmap: Make checkpatch.pl happy Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 14:12 ` UBI fastmap updates Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 14:15   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 14:29     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 14:51       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 16:17         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 16:32           ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 16:45             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 16:54               ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 17:03               ` Tim Bird
2012-08-02 17:06                 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 17:40                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 17:45                   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 17:59                     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 18:03                       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 18:15                         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-05  8:23                     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-08-05 14:25                       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 17:50                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 14:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 14:59   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-02 15:18     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 15:19       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-06 17:36   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-07  4:21     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-07  7:29       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-07 18:53         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 18:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-02 18:56   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-03  8:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-03  8:56   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-17 13:11 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-08-17 13:33   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-17 13:41     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-08-17 13:43       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-08-17 14:06         ` Artem Bityutskiy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-28 13:55 Richard Weinberger
2013-10-03 16:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-07-02 16:23 Richard Weinberger
2012-06-29 15:14 Richard Weinberger
2012-06-30 10:43 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-30 10:53   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-30 11:24     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-30 14:24     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-07-08 11:47 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-07-08 12:07   ` Richard Weinberger
2012-07-08 15:11     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-07-09  7:37     ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-07-09  8:19       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-27 15:57 Richard Weinberger
2012-06-23 13:03 Richard Weinberger
2012-06-27  4:20 ` Namjae Jeon
2012-06-27  6:48   ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2012-06-27  7:17     ` Richard Weinberger
2012-06-18 16:18 UBI Fastmap updates Richard Weinberger

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