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zhao forrest wrote:
> It's true that "c->cleanmarker_size was 0" for NAND flash.
> But besides  NAND flash, "c->cleanmarker_size was 0" is also true
> for dataflash. That means that cleanmarker was not needed for
> dataflash for some reason that I don't know :)

DataFlash is has a minimum IO unit (DataFlash block, 528/1056 AFAIR),
and has no OOB. So the cleanmarker would consume the whole DataFlash
block which considered wasteful I suppose.

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Artem B. Bityuckiy,
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