linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:22:41 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <rw@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 22:01 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Please, consider an option of picking a different name. In JFFS2 a
> > "similar" thing was called "summaries", and even this is better than
> > "checkpoint", I think.
> 
> What about "Erase block indexing"?
> Basically a checkpoint is an index...

Index is also very loaded word already, and UBIFS has index, would be
nice to use a word UBIFS does not use. Thomas's suggestions like fastmap
or roadmap/milestone are fine with me. UBIUBI is clever, but probably
confusing a bit as well :-)

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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