From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756601Ab2CHLUN (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:20:13 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:61978 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089Ab2CHLUJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:20:09 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="116323164" Message-ID: <1331205761.7257.5.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Richard Weinberger Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, tim.bird@am.sony.com Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:22:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4F57CCB9.9090001@linutronix.de> References: <1329250006-22944-1-git-send-email-rw@linutronix.de> <1331136246.32316.39.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> <4F57CCB9.9090001@linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-1.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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