Some news for this: [PATCH] [MTD] BLOCK_RO: Readonly Block Device Layer Over MTD ?

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Thu Nov 22 02:58:58 EST 2007


On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Jörn Engel wrote:

>> If data is corrupted between tow read even journalized are log file
>> system will loose data.
>> Either there is a mechanism I missed in this file system or 2 bits
>> flipped are so rare that this event can be ignored.
>
> It means that NAND needs scrubbing.

By 'scrubbing' do you mean erasing the blocks in question and rewriting 
them with the same data in order to put fresh data back in the bit cells?

/Ricard
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