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From: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
To: Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MTD Mailing List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] read-only filesystem support for NAND flash devices
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:55:21 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44644D79.7000903@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9d2a5e10605111626u743b101dgfc7e90422dec9a80@mail.gmail.com>

Russ Dill wrote:
> True, I also realized another possible shortcut. If a blocks gets an
> ECC correction on a read, rewrite it to a free block, erase the block,
> rewrite it from the data written to the free block, and then erase the
> free block. You'd need to put some info in the OOB so you could know
> what the state is on power recovery.
>
Oh thanks, that's the idea I'm going to use. It's a pretty reasonable 
assumption that 1 byte out of OOB is available as there's not going to 
be anything in OOB but ECC code in case of RO filesystem.

Vitaly

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10  9:52 [RFC] read-only filesystem support for NAND flash devices Vitaly Wool
2006-05-10 11:00 ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-10 11:20   ` Vitaly Wool
2006-05-10 13:39     ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-10 20:11       ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-11 19:06     ` Russ Dill
2006-05-11 22:26       ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-11 23:26         ` Russ Dill
2006-05-11 23:34           ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-11 23:58             ` Russ Dill
2006-05-12  8:55           ` Vitaly Wool [this message]
2006-05-12  8:52       ` Vitaly Wool
2006-05-13 14:08         ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-10 17:04   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-05-10 17:20     ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-10 20:01       ` Jörn Engel
2006-05-11 14:23       ` Atsushi Nemoto

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