Re: UBIFS recovery fails

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:11 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> > [...] Unfortunately, no one really invested time into making UBIFS 
> > support MLC very well. It needs some more work. It also have some issues 
> > related to unstable bits in modern SLC.
> >
> > In short - if you want to use UBIFS on MLC - you should not have unclean
> > reboots. If you want to make UBIFS 100% uclean-reboot save on MLC - you
> > need to work on it some more.
> >
> > We (the original authors) developed and tested it on very robust SLC
> > NAND.
> 
> Do you have any specifics on what the issues are with MLC ?

Yeah, described at the web site, please send patches if you have
something to add!

> Since UBI implements bit scrubbing and eraseblock torture on questionable 
> blocks it would seem that a lot of the work has been done in order to 
> handle unstable bits. Is there some issue which is related specifically to 
> bit flips happening while the system is powered off?

The definition of unstable bits in MTD community is probably not what
you though of. I've added the docs at the web site as well :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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