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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dvir Oren <dviro@lucidvon.com>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Bad Block Table
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:52:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18850.954247933@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38E09EA9.C60FB1CD@lucidvon.com>


dviro@lucidvon.com said:
>  But does MTD even care about the BadBlockTable?  That is, does nftl.c
> check that the block that is about to be written to is not in the bad
> block table?

Not yet. That'll come when it handle async erases properly - and keeps a queue 
of preerased blocks which are available for writing, rather than going 
trawling for a new one each time it needs one.


dviro@lucidvon.com said:
>  Could this explain why I'm getting file system trashes?

If you've got bad blocks of flash, yes. It's more likely that I'm just 
violating some of the timing requirements for the DiskOnChip, though. 

--
dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-28 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-28  9:09 Bad Block Table Dvir Oren
2000-03-28  9:37 ` David Woodhouse
2000-03-28 11:44   ` Dvir Oren
2000-03-28 11:59   ` Dvir Oren
2000-03-28 12:52     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-04 14:55 Dvir Oren
2000-03-26 14:21 Dvir Oren

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