From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751624AbXCZLfJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752057AbXCZLfJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:09 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:60615 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751624AbXCZLfH (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:35:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:30:30 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Matt Mackall , Josh Boyer , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Frank Haverkamp , Christoph Hellwig , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images Message-ID: <20070326113030.GA22501@lazybastard.org> References: <20070319170838.GP4892@waste.org> <1174328188.30079.46.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20070319195442.GT4892@waste.org> <1174338329.13341.633.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070319223205.GZ4892@waste.org> <1174351366.13341.739.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070321110528.GC3785@lazybastard.org> <1174476334.10840.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070325200826.GA19691@lazybastard.org> <1174906146.1542.18.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1174906146.1542.18.camel@sauron> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 March 2007 13:49:06 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:08 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > > > Logical volume management can just as easily move its management > > information into a table, instead of having it spread across all blocks. > > Blocks can keep their original size. Since you have to scan flash > > anyway, you can also scan for a table, compare a magical number and do > > some extra check to protect yourself against a UBI image inside some > > logical volume. No big deal. > > First off, I see these no big deal statements for years already, and no > decent implementation proved by usage in real world. Could we please, > move these academic discussions to another thread? You could wait a day, then reread what I wrote. Maybe you will notice that what I wrote is not identical to what we have discussed about a year ago and you seem to have read. You may also want to reread this: ||[ This was not a request for UBI to be changed. The only purpose was to ||illustrate that LogFS is not broken. The previous thread suggested ||otherwise and I just couldn't leave it at that. ] Jörn -- tglx1 thinks that joern should get a (TM) for "Thinking Is Hard" -- Thomas Gleixner