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On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 10:08 +0100, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> Does UBI periodically scan the flash for bit flips, or is the scrubbing=20
> mechanism only triggered when an mtd_read() is done by a higher layer?

No, it does not do any background scanning for bit-flips. The second is
true.

If one needs some scanning, it may be implemented by making a
users-space script run by cron daemon I guess.

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