Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

[John Watlington]

I get 898,452 KiB free, on several machines.
How did you get 921,000 KiB free ?

wad

On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have updated the  UBIFS 8.2 image on d.l.o with a
> new kernel that includes various backports from kernel.org.
> One major change that is noticeable is that the free space
> calculation reports 921MiB free instead of 822MiB due to
> improved df reporting. I've also disabled debug messages
> and this will improve performance (UBI attach time dropped
> from 50s to < 2s).
>
> Directions for installation:
>
>  * Make sure your XO has security disabled
>
>  * Make sure your XO is running the latest OFW. The best way to do  
> this
>    is to update it to 8.2.0.
>
>  * Download the following files to a USB stick:
>
>    http://dev.laptop.org/~dsaxena/ubi_test/data.img
>    http://dev.laptop.org/~dsaxena/ubi_test/nand.img
>
>  * Boot the laptop with USB stick and escape into the OFW prompt.
>
>  * Run:
>
>    ok dev nand   : write-blocks write-pages ;  dend
>    write-blocks isn't unique # You can ignore this
>    ok update-nand u:\data.img
>
>  * At this point OFW will erase the flash and copy the contents of the
>    nand.img file to flash. When complete you can simply reboot the  
> system.
>
> Thanks to Artem Bityutskiy for backporting the changes.
>
> ~Deepak
>
> -- 
> Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer - dsaxena at laptop.org
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