Re: mkfs.jffs2 and mksum

Ricard Wanderlof
2007-09-19T21:13:07Z

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Timo Piiroinen wrote:

> I think jffs2 writes cleanmarkers to padded space, but I'm not sure what
> happens in sumtool with padded space because the padded space is lost.
> It sounds that it's possible get in touble with padding, if writing 0xFF
> into empy space, if it may cause "unstable bits" or somethink like that.
> Well, I'm not sure if I want to use padding anymore :)

When creating an image for NAND flash, you normally don't want
cleanmarkers in the image, as the cleanmarkers end up in the OOB anyway
(which is not part of the image). Do this by specifying --no-cleanmarkers
to mkfs.jffs2.

/Ricard
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