linux-kernel - Re: UBI fastmap updates

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Message-ID: <20120817153348.7a0a50a0@spider.haslach.nod.at>
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:33:48 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com, nyoushchenko@...sta.com
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	adrian.hunter@...el.com, Heinz.Egger@...utronix.de,
	thomas.wucher@...utronix.de, shmulik.ladkani@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com, Marius.Mazarel@...l.ro
Subject: Re: UBI fastmap updates

Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:11:55 +0300
schrieb Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>:
> 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?

Yep, the on-flash fastmap is immutable.

Thanks,
//richard
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