From: "Chuck Meade" <chuckmeade@mindspring.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: DOC filesystem questions
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:42:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <IIEEICKJLNEPBBDJICNGEEIEDMAA.chuckmeade@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060327833.25209.271.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > We _must_ retain the bad block table which was on the device when it
> > > arrived from the factory.
> >
> > OK I see. Would it be valuable then to have a Linux command-line
> > utility which captures the BBT before calling nftl_format, then
> > is used to restore the BBT after calling nftl_format but before
> > nftl tries to mount any partitions (via 'insmod nftl' or whatever)?
>
> ... or which writes it back as _part_ of the nftl_format process,
> perhaps?
>
> Yes, it would be extremely useful to do this.
I will work on this then and feed it back to the list for
evaluation when I have something that works.
Chuck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-08 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 4:27 DOC filesystem questions Chuck Meade
2003-08-07 10:43 ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-07 16:09 ` Chuck Meade
2003-08-07 16:32 ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-07 16:56 ` Chuck Meade
2003-08-08 7:30 ` David Woodhouse
2003-08-08 13:42 ` Chuck Meade [this message]
2003-08-08 14:05 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-19 22:27 ` Chuck Meade
2003-09-20 1:20 ` Chuck Meade
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