Re: Some news for this: [PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD ?

Ricard Wanderlof
2007-11-21T20:46:52Z

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:

> > > What problem does the driver solve?
> > It allow to use cramfs/squashfs/fat in read-only on NAND flash for
> > embedded systems.
>
> Not really. It allows you to put one of those filesystems into
> NAND using a bad-block aware program initially, and mount it. It
> doesn't handle run-time bit flips or errors from what I can see.

Won't ECC take care of spurious bit flips?

/Ricard
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