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On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 15:15 -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> NAND chips come from the factory with bad blocks marked at a certain
> offset into each page.  This offset is normally in the OOB area, but
> since we change the layout from "4k data, 128 byte oob" to "2k data, 64
> byte oob, 2k data, 64 byte oob" the marker is no longer in the oob.  On
> first use we need to migrate the markers so that they are still in the oob.

Ah, I see, thanks. Are you planning to implement in-kernel migration or
use a user-space tool?

Artem.