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

Gregory CLEMENT
2007-11-21T17:07:26Z

2007/11/21, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:28:05 +0100
> "Gregory CLEMENT" <gclement00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2007/11/21, Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>:
> > > On Wed, 21 November 2007 15:27:19 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I come back with my question because it seems that last time I sent
> > > > this mail mtd mailing list was done during few weeks, so maybe this
> > > > mail was lost.
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> josh
>

Are these run-time bit flips can happen on reading only mode?

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