JFFS2 - ECC errors with NAND flash

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Mon Dec 2 11:45:46 EST 2002


On Monday 02 December 2002 17:00, Srinivasu.Vaduguri at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to mount JFFS2 on MTD driver which uses NAND flash. I am using
> the latest MTD snapshot (mtd-snapshot-20020731.tar.bz2).
Please use latest code in CVS. There were too mauch changes since then.

> I have one more doubt. If the ECC is not calculated for smaller number of
> bytes when writing, then how will the read operation be succesful,  which
> calculates the ECC for entire page?
JFFS2 for NAND always writes full pages with ECC. See 
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/html

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Thomas
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