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Russ Dill wrote:
> Free block list? Bad block list? Tracking of block numbers? Sounds
> like a full on FTL to me.
I'd rather go modifying mtdblock_ro. I don't want to implement FTL 
because 1) as David pointed out, I don't need to handle writes; 2) I'm 
afraid we may end up dealing with patent issues here again.

Vitaly