Re: mtd/fs/jffs2 erase.c,1.84,1.85 roll back

Jörn Engel
2005-09-25T12:55:12Z

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

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