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First use of UBIFS?

First use of UBIFS?

Posted Oct 10, 2008 13:14 UTC (Fri) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: First use of UBIFS? by epa
Parent article: The 2.6.27 kernel is out

SSDs on laptops provide a block-device interface. For the embedded Linux systems that UBIFS is targeted to, hopefully the vendor should enable it for you.

(I bet Nokia is planning to use it for their new Internet tablets, for example)


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First use of UBIFS?

Posted Oct 10, 2008 18:56 UTC (Fri) by dedekind (subscriber, #32521) [Link]

Right. This often confuses "non-embedded" people who do not distinguish between a "block device" and "mtd device". UBIFS is for MTD devices. Examples of block devices: HDD, eMMC, SSD, CF, SD, etc.

Glance here for more information about what is the difference: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/general.html#L_mtd...

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