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Subject: Re: UBI bad block Management
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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Hi,

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:58 +0530, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>    The flash devices are getting of bigger in Size.The Init Scan time
> will increase with bigger Size flash.How long are we going to rely on
> MTD for Bad block Management.

I hope forever. It is MTD's and only MTD's business to manage bad
blocks. Do not want MTD to do scanning? - Use on-flash BBT.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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