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Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

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> Unless you supply your device with an UPS :-)
> 
> I did not really follow the discussion, so sorry if the following is
> unrelated: I think it should not be too difficult to teach JFFS2 to
> force GC on eraseblocks with bit-flips.
> 

I can confirm that ;-)
we actually implemented this (for our ancient 2.4.25 kernel with JFFS2 version 2005)
because we were seriously suffering from NAND bit flips on our Numonyx SLC NAND device.
see:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-August/027080.html

This would only benefit the OP if kernel image is kept on JFFS2 (too).