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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: write bad block marker even with BBT
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On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 12:46 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> This is one of the problems. We would need to invalidate both BBTs in
> step 1, making our attempts at mirroring pointless. In fact, in some
> power cut cases, we could be left in a worse condition than if we
> didn't try to compensate for power cuts, since we just killed our
> backup table.

I agree that it is not probably worth the effort, but would be nice to
do, if someone has time and thinks this is useful. But I think it would
be fair to request to add a comment which describes this hypothetical
issue and this possible solution, would it?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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