[RFC] read-only filesystem support for NAND flash devices

[Atsushi Nemoto]

On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:00:57 -0500, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not quite the case.  You need bad block skipping, yes.  But NAND can
> get bit flips in good blocks still.  How do you deal with that?  You
> can't leave the block in that state forever because it will continue
> to get bit flips and then your data will be unusable.

If I mounted a JFFS2 filesystem on NAND and _never_ write anything (or
mounted read-only), does current MTD/NAND/JFFS2 layer handle those bit
flips?  I've thought JFFS2 only reassign blocks on writing, so JFFS2
also suffer those "bit flips on read" problem, is it right?

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Atsushi Nemoto