NAND partitioning

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Jan 31 07:56:13 EST 2005


On Sat, 29 January 2005 09:51:00 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Not necessarily.  I was actually thinking of having JFFS2 just "ignore"
> such eraseblocks.  Essentially treating them as bad blocks perhaps.
> 
> However, such blocks could be scattered across the entire device rather
> than contained within a certain address range on the chip.  Updating the
> data would be a bit tricky, which is why I said a driver would need to
> be created in order to deal with it.

Problem would be trivial to solve, if said blocks were not scattered
across the device.  Do you have a good reason to need this?

Jörn

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