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Subject: Re: Writing a ubinize'd image to fresh NANDFlash with a burner
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:55 -0500, Pontus Hedman wrote:
> So I have used ubinize to create a UBIFS image.  I would now
> like to burn it to fresh-from-the factory blank nandflash
> 
> Do I just tell the burner to skip bad blocks on write, like nandwrite
> does?
> 
> This will happen only once; after that Linux will mount the
> filesystem and take of it itself.

I've updated UBI documentation and reflected what you asked there
as well. Please, beware about the "skip 0xFF'ed pages" part. See here:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_format_det

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)