From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>, Srinivasu.Vaduguri@nokia.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: ddaney@avtrex.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Allow any filesystem on MTD Nand when Read Only
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:02:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405061002.25973.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4099E739.4070803@intracom.gr>
On Thursday 06 May 2004 09:20, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> Maybe you can do something when writting your filesystem image when you
> detect
> a simple bit error you can immediately mark the block bad.
>
> How many times have you written the block in order for something like
> this to occur?
>
> It seems to me that when you have a read only partition the solution is
> to be
> carefull when writting your filesystem image.
> First you avoid the bad block altogether, and secondly you always bit
> verify the block. If the verify fails you immediately mark the block as bad
> and move
> on.
>
> I don't think that nandwrite does it though.
No it doesnt. This could be fixed easily.
--
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <AEB09EDA2548094C81ED6AA93269F63D01D09322@siebe001.apac.nokia.com>
2004-05-06 7:20 ` [patch] Allow any filesystem on MTD Nand when Read Only Pantelis Antoniou
2004-05-06 8:02 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
[not found] <AEB09EDA2548094C81ED6AA93269F63D01D09323@siebe001.apac.nokia.com>
2004-05-06 9:39 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-05-06 9:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-05-06 9:45 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-05-05 12:33 Pantelis Antoniou
2004-05-05 12:57 ` David Woodhouse
2004-05-05 13:03 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-05-05 15:26 ` David Daney
2004-05-05 17:44 ` Phillip Lougher
2004-05-05 19:07 ` David Daney
2004-05-06 7:12 ` Pantelis Antoniou
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