Hi Joe,
On 11/5/2012 10:19 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
Hi Vikram,
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Vikram Narayananvikram186@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/2/2012 8:24 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
UBI can mount volumes by name or number The current code forces you to name the volume by prepending every name with "ubi:".
From fs/ubifs/super.c
- There are several ways to specify UBI volumes when mounting UBIFS:
- o ubiX_Y - UBI device number X, volume Y;
- o ubiY - UBI device number 0, volume Y;
- o ubiX:NAME - mount UBI device X, volume with name NAME;
- o ubi:NAME - mount UBI device 0, volume with name NAME.
Now any name passed in any of the above forms are allowed.
What exactly are we gaining from this naming compared to the default? In what way the old naming affects the end user?
The reason I needed this change is so that I could specify the volume by number in a script instead of being forced to know the name. In Linux you can use the volume number using the format above (it's the same code).
If that is the case, then the one can create the partition using the below command,
ubi createvol <vol name>
<vol name> can be any of the 4 methods listed above.
and the prefix "ubi:" will be appended in the environment which is expected by kernel for mounting. Right?
~Vikram