Re: [PATCH/RFC] Linux MTD striping middle layer

Jörn Engel
2006-03-21T20:25:11Z

On Tue, 21 March 2006 14:37:48 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 21:11 +0300, Alexander Belyakov wrote:
> > > Striped mtd device erasesize is an erasesize of subdevice multiplied by
> > > number of subdevices (in case of equal erasesize subdevices). As
> > > erasesize is commonly considered as a power-of-2 number it is not good
> > > idea to use 3, 5, etc devices.
> > Why? I don't see any thing bad with having 3*128KiB eraseblock size...
>
> I agree with you ....... as long as someone is willing to audit all MTD
> client code to certify that no assumption about erase block sizes being
> a power of 2 is present.

Hasn't that already been done for dataflash? As long as some people
still use dataflash, we have people (un?)willingly testing this.

Jörn

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