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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: haverkam@de.ibm.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NAND partitioning
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:56:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050131125613.GA6345@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107013860.10670.5.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com>

On Sat, 29 January 2005 09:51:00 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Not necessarily.  I was actually thinking of having JFFS2 just "ignore"
> such eraseblocks.  Essentially treating them as bad blocks perhaps.
> 
> However, such blocks could be scattered across the entire device rather
> than contained within a certain address range on the chip.  Updating the
> data would be a bit tricky, which is why I said a driver would need to
> be created in order to deal with it.

Problem would be trivial to solve, if said blocks were not scattered
across the device.  Do you have a good reason to need this?

Jörn

-- 
I don't understand it. Nobody does.
-- Richard P. Feynman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-31 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 21:03 NAND partitioning Josh Boyer
2005-01-29 11:39 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-29 15:51   ` Josh Boyer
2005-01-30 15:51     ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-31 12:56     ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-01-31 15:10       ` Josh Boyer
2005-01-31 15:29         ` Jörn Engel
2005-01-31 16:54           ` Josh Boyer

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