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

[Ricard Wanderlof]

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> Nope, scrubbing was one of the design goals of UBI and it does do it.

That's good news!

> If mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN, which means a correctable ECC error
> occurred (bit-flip), UBI schedules this physical eraseblock for
> movement. Then it moves it in background, re-maps corresponding logical
> eraseblock to the new physical eraseblock, and schedules the old
> physical eraseblock for erasure.

Does UBI periodically scan the flash for bit flips, or is the scrubbing 
mechanism only triggered when an mtd_read() is done by a higher layer?

/Ricard
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