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Subject: Re: nandwrite/ubi memory corruption?
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:10 +1300, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Nothing was apparently broken after ubiformat, system kept running
> smoothly. But I can't use ubiformat for writing kernel image, can I?
>=20
> Is there any other way to write raw kernel image to /dev/mtd1 other than
> using nandwrite?

Using nandwrite for UBI is bad by definition because you loose your
erase-counters and screw up wear-leveling.

--=20
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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