copy filesystem to nand flash without ecc

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Fri Feb 14 04:03:10 EST 2003


On Friday 14 February 2003 09:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:52, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > You will get a endless bunch of ECC failure warnings. They will go away,
> > if you copy files around. As ECC is essential for NAND, we removed the
> > non ECC stuff for JFFS2 :)
>
> Weren't we talking about having an ioctl or something to select whether
> writes from userspace had ECC done on them or not?

Yep, but nobody coded it until now :)

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Thomas
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