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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:44:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100624074448.C99031524EE@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiktrnXK-erEMjHh9ALHMOhfJZMr09G57fidAsv1@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Arno Steffen,

In message <AANLkTiktrnXK-erEMjHh9ALHMOhfJZMr09G57fidAsv1@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> The only thing I have to care is, that I have leave enough space
> between the partitions. As for instance : I need 10 blocks for a
> certain filesystem, give it 12 ? So it could correct 2 bad blocks in
> this range.

If you are dealing with NAND, and want any sort of reliability, you
want to use UBI.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 12:40 [U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand Arno Steffen
2010-06-23 19:08 ` Scott Wood
2010-06-24  6:28   ` Arno Steffen
2010-06-24  7:44     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2010-06-24 15:36     ` Scott Wood
2010-06-25 10:18       ` Arno Steffen
2010-06-25 15:50         ` Scott Wood
2010-06-28 13:35           ` Arno Steffen
2010-07-09  9:12             ` Arno Steffen
2010-07-09 12:56               ` Ben Gardiner
2010-07-09 18:15                 ` Scott Wood
2010-08-13 21:22                   ` Grant Edwards
2010-08-13 22:17                     ` Grant Edwards
2010-08-16 18:55                     ` Scott Wood
2010-08-16 19:13                       ` Grant Edwards

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