On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 14:27 +0200, David Wagner wrote: > * The numbering of devices is much easier with ubiblk than with > gluebi+mtdblock_ro. With gluebi+mtdblock_ro, you get one additional > MTD device for each UBI volume, so the number of MTD devices grows > quite a lot and is a bit difficult to understand. For example, > mtdblock[0-4] might be your real MTD partitions, while mtdblock[5-9] > might be your UBI volumes. > It also means that if a new real MTD > partition is added, the number of all the MTD devices exposing UBI > volumes will be incremented by one, which is a bit > confusing/annoying. > As well, if you add an UBI volume, the mtdblock devices that are > emulated on top of volumes that come after this new one will have > their ID incremented. > > * The performance appears to be slightly better with ubiblk than > gluebi+mtdblock_ro, according to our benchmarks (see > http://elinux.org/Flash_Filesystem_Benchmarks_2.6.39) Hi, I am having vacation till the middle of August and I do not have a possibility to look at UBI/UBIFS/MTD stuff now, sorry. When I come back, I'll go through my e-mails and respond. Apologies again. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
