jffs2_scan_eraseblock() - errors

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 31 July 2002 12:45:52 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de said:
> >  How exactly is this done? On the next mount after the failed write?
> > By toggling bits in the status word of the node header?
> 
> By marking it obsolete. It's an optimisation.

And this marking as obsolete is done how? Does is involve writes to
the flash node, after it has already been written?

Sorry for me being clueless.

> > If so, this will not work with any of the shiny STMicro chips with
> > hardware ECC, so I would have to tackle that one too, once we merge. 
> 
> Doesn't matter. Our other plans for deferring CRC checking will avoid the 
> harmless complaint.

Ok, I can live with that.

Jörn

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