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Subject: Re: max_ec value is shown as 1
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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Hello Sandeep,

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:44 +0000, Sandeep Kumar wrote:
> [root@localhost ubi]#cd /sys/class/ubi/ubi0/
> [root@localhost ubi0]# cat max_ec
> 1
>=20
> Well, Can anyone help me in determining that why the max_ec is shown as 1=
.

What did you expect instead?

You fed empty flash to UBI, UBI erased each eraseblock once and put
erase counter header to each eraseblock, with erase counter =3D 1, because
there was one erase.

And max_ec which means maximum erase counter value is 1.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)