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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: twebb <taliaferro62@gmail.com>
Cc: Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: UBIFS failed to recover master node
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:14:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276175644.5016.38.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilHpprYBKnYrw4wTEWjYyQBFJoJZRCwEQbSUOuP@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 09:08 -0400, twebb wrote:
> >
> > Yes, HW fails to correct bit errors. Why these errors are there - this
> > it the question. May be MLC-related. You need to debug this. Or send me
> > your board, I can try to take a look
> >
> > Did you enable UBI extra self checks?
> >
> 
> It does appear to be an MLC-related problem - either read or write
> disturb appears to have made an "empty" page not really empty.  Would
> UBI extra self checks handle this situation?  I'm not familiar with
> what the extra checks do - I'll look in the code.

No.

> Since read/write disturb errors are a trait of MLC, I'm curious how
> others are dealing with this condition?  ECC can't correct for it
> because it's supposed to be a blank page, implying no ECC is present.
> So if a read or write disturb occurs and the blank page is no longer
> blank - how does driver and/or UBI/UBIFS handle this?  Seems that the
> remaining "good" block data would have to be moved to another LEB and
> the current block somehow marked as dirty.

ubi_leb_change() could do this.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-24 15:22 UBIFS failed to recover master node twebb
2010-05-25  5:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-05-26 16:06   ` twebb
2010-05-26 16:32     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-06-08 13:44   ` twebb
2010-06-08 14:17     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-06-08 15:00       ` twebb
2010-06-08 15:23         ` twebb
2010-06-08 15:33       ` twebb
2010-06-10 13:08       ` twebb
2010-06-10 13:14         ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-05-25  5:06 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-06-28  8:21   ` re
2010-07-13  8:48     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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