Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:33:48 +0200
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com, nyoushchenko@mvista.com
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Subject: Re: UBI fastmap updates
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Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:11:55 +0300
schrieb Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.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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