linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/44 take 2] [UBI] Unsorted Block Images

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Message-Id: <1171993309.4039.54.camel@sauron>
Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:41:49 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Frank Haverkamp <haver@...t.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/44 take 2] [UBI] Unsorted Block Images

John,

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:52 -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
> Can you define UBI in each and every file you create?  This is a
> completely unique acronym and I'm sure a bunch of people will be going
> "wtf" when they read this, I know I was.

Do you mean adding something like "This is file is a part of the
Unsorted Block Images (UBI) subsystem" to the header of each file?

> Neat stuff!  Too bad you don't have a more descriptive name for it,
> UBI just doesn't seem to have any connection to LVM for Flash plus
> wear leveling.

Well, this name was born inside IBM, the guys in CC and may comment on
this. Feel free to advice a better name, although renaming this is
something I really do not want to do.

And it indeed has no connection to LVM, I just used the analogy to
quickly provide the idea what is this about.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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