how to handle the invalid block of the NAND flash?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Monday 04 November 2002 11:27, Paul Wong wrote:
> Hi! all,
>     I know that the NAND flash memory is not guaranteed to be good in all
> block. Has the MTD/NAND driver handle this condition? If not, how to
> implement this?
>
The NAND driver itself does not handle bad blocks, except that it denies the 
request to erase a bad block. The bad block management has to be done in the 
filesystem layer. There are two NAND aware filesystems: JFFS2 and YAFFS.
See also http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/nand.html

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Thomas
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