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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Atlant Schmidt <aschmidt@dekaresearch.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	'Daniel Drake' <dsd@laptop.org>
Subject: RE: ubi vol_size and lots of bad blocks
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:58:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318597112.12351.123.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A40042D85E7C84DB443060EC44B3FD33001C1D733@dekaexchange07.deka.local>

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 07:35 -0400, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> 
>   Be careful here -- the last time I looked, blocks that go
>   bad *ARE NOT* actually permanently marked as bad; they may
>   no longer be used during the current boot, but the next time
>   you reboot, they're eligible for attempted-but-often-failing
>   use once again.

If this happened to you, this must be because of a bug in your MTD
driver. UBI dimply calls MTD mark_bad() function to mark blocks bad.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 12:09 ubi vol_size and lots of bad blocks Daniel Drake
2011-10-11 11:35 ` Atlant Schmidt
2011-10-14 12:58   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-10-14 13:03     ` Atlant Schmidt
2011-10-17 11:36       ` Atlant Schmidt
2011-10-14 11:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-17 13:35   ` Daniel Drake
2011-10-20 15:57     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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