On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Baruch Siach <bar...@tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Erez, > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:46:43AM +0300, Erez D wrote: > > i need to clone a nand flash. which has ubifs on it > > > > doing 'dd' didn't work as the source and dest have different bad sectors. > > dd is not the way to go with raw NAND flash access; it's not aware of bad > blocks. > > > is there an easy way to clone a ubifs nand-flash ? > > You may be able get a working system using nanddump/nandwrite (see > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/45792/focus=46024, but > read > the whole thread). Generally, tough, this is not what you want to do with > UBI/UBIFS. You should use ubiformat on the target, and copy the content > with > tar. See http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_why_ubiformat > . > will tar preserve uid/gid hard links, special files, /dev extended attr etc ? > > baruch > > -- > http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open > Systems > =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= > - bar...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - >
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