Bad Blocks On JFFS2/NAND

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Oct 20 05:53:20 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:40, Simon Haynes wrote:
> This 5 error business is only if you have relatively new code. Old code 
> generates an incorrect and permanent bad block after 1 failure. I am testing 
> the suggestion by Thomas that this is a page cache problem by always marking 
> an erase page as invalid. No errors as yet but I will keep you posted.

A cvs history search should reveal the changes to the nr errors thing
and to the page cache fixes. So you can verify against your particular
version.

tglx






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