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From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
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Subject: Re: What filesystem for NAND flash with OOB 218
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:19:56 +1300
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On Monday 07 December 2009 15:27:57 Jeff Angielski wrote:
> I was wondering what type of filesystem everybody is using for the newer
>   NAND flash with OOB>=128 bytes.  For me, this is the Micron
> MT29F8G08AAA which has an OOB=218.
>
> It seems that the JFFS2 tools are out of date and don't work with
> anything less than or equal to 64bytes of OOB.
>
> YAFFS2 does not compile in the latest kernel source trees (2.6.31 in the
> DENX linux-2.6-denx git tree).  Is this filesystem dead?

Far from it. 
I'll take a look at why it does not compile.

>
> As far as I can tell, that only leaves UBIFS.  Is UBIFS ready to
> deployed in the field?
>
> Is there any other choice for these parts?