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From: Simon Haynes <simon@baydel.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Bad Blocks On JFFS2/NAND
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:22:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E0180EAB7181@baydel.com> (raw)


I have experienced a problem in which a JFF2 filesystem on NAND became full. 
This is a root file system and constant writes to a logfile filled the 
filesystem. On investigation it was found that the NAND device now had 
hundreds of bad blocks. 

I started to investigate this and found that JFFS2 was announcing 

Newly-erased block contained word 0x1985e002 at offset 0x020f7e00

Messages which result in my mtd/jffs2 code marking the block bad. What I find 
strange is that a subsequent scan list the new block at a different 16k 
offset when the device erasesize is 16k, in this case 0x020f0000.
Is that because my device is 128Mb and JFFS2 is using this 'virtual erase 
size' of 32k ?

I have observed this now on several different NAND devices and it seems to be 
more prominent while performing small writes.

I am currently trying to work out if the erase is not completing, or this is 
the wrong block or something else. 

I was wondering if anyone has seen something similar

Cheers

Simon. 

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-19 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-19 11:22 Simon Haynes [this message]
2004-10-19 11:50 ` Bad Blocks On JFFS2/NAND Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-19 14:39   ` Simon Haynes
2004-10-19 15:02     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-19 15:18       ` Simon Haynes
2004-10-19 21:45   ` Michael Moedt
2004-10-19 21:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-20  9:40       ` Simon Haynes
2004-10-20  9:53         ` Thomas Gleixner

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