Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:31:36 +0100 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images |
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On Wed, 21 March 2007 12:57:42 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:35 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote: > > Even if such flashes still contain a bootloader and a kernel, that will > > occupy less than 1% of the device. Wear leveling across the device is > > fairly pointless here. This is what I designed LogFS for. > > Still you need to have a solution for handling bitflips in those > bootloader and kernel areas.
Correct. It may make sense to use UBI for that, I don't know. What I do know is that UBI cannot make wear leveling decisions as well as LogFS.
And that is all I care about wrt. this discussion.
Jörn
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