UBIFS and hardware ECC of all FF pages of MLC NAND

[Darwin Rambo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Artem Bityutskiy [mailto:dedekind1 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:21 AM
> To: Darwin Rambo
> Cc: dedekind at infradead.org; linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; 
> Matthieu CASTET; Adrian Hunter
> Subject: Re: UBIFS and hardware ECC of all FF pages of MLC NAND
> 
> On 09/29/2009 07:13 PM, Darwin Rambo wrote:
> > It is a bigger problem with 512K erase blocks. In this case, my
> > 6MB jffs2 image grows to over 14MB ubifs image due to 
> padding. There are about 12
> > partial blocks with little data in the first few pages, and 
> about 4 partial
> > blocks at the end. 16 partial blocks is about 8 MB of 
> overhead on 6MB of
> > real content.
> 
> Well, of course I do not object if someone implements the optimization
> you mentioned, but I do not have time to do this.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
> 
> 

I'm reluctant to implement something unless several people ask for it,
Otherwise it may be wasted effort and a candidate for future deprecation. 
Let's wait and see. Thanks for your help understanding this.

Regards,
Darwin