From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Anders Grafstrom <grfstrm@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mtd/fs/jffs2 erase.c,1.84,1.85 roll back
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:54:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050925125455.GA28978@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43341DCD.6090002@users.sourceforge.net>
On Fri, 23 September 2005 17:22:53 +0200, Anders Grafstrom wrote:
>
> jffs2 makes a second try if a failed erase is reported by the mtd
> driver. But only for NAND (in jffs2_write_nand_badblock()). What I'm
> after is a retry for NOR as well. But I wrote the patch so it would
> retry for other cases of failure too.
Is a retry really an improvement? When a block cannot be properly
erased on the first try, I would not trust it anymore. Instead of a
retry, I'd rather mark it as a bad block and not touch it again.
Jörn
--
When you close your hand, you own nothing. When you open it up, you
own the whole world.
-- Li Mu Bai in Tiger & Dragon
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[not found] ` <43303409.5030406@users.sourceforge.net>
2005-09-20 16:48 ` mtd/fs/jffs2 erase.c,1.84,1.85 roll back Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-09-20 19:49 ` Anders Grafstrom
2005-09-22 14:34 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-09-23 15:22 ` Anders Grafstrom
2005-09-25 12:54 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-09-26 8:03 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-09-26 8:31 ` Jörn Engel
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