From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-bw0-f49.google.com ([209.85.214.49]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1OvDmy-0006Ml-Fd for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:30:01 +0000 Received: by bwz13 with SMTP id 13so6210783bwz.36 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] UBI reliability improvements From: Artem Bityutskiy To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1283763293-1882-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> References: <1283763293-1882-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:29:55 +0300 Message-ID: <1284402595.1783.34.camel@brekeke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "Matthew L. Creech" , Matthieu CASTET Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 11:54 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Hi, > > here is a set of patches which should improve UBI reliability. I wrote them > during my trip to LinuxCon Brazil. > > Patches 1-5 should be interesting for Matthieu CASTET - they improve -EUCLEAN > errors handling a little. > > Patches 6-13 should be interesting for Matthew L. Creech - they presimably have > to help in catching why in his setup UBIFS refers unmapped LEB. I'm not sure > they will help, but there is a chance - my theory is that UBI decides that the > LEB is corrupted and wipes it. With this patch-set UBI should instead preserve > corrupted LEBs, so we could take a look what happened. > > Please, reveiw, test. I tested them a little as well, but not extensively. OK, although no one reviewed / tested this so far, I'm pushing this to the ubi-2.6.git / master tree. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)