[PATCH] mtd: nand: write bad block marker even with BBT
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 13:51:29 EST 2011
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 12:46 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>> This is one of the problems. We would need to invalidate both BBTs in
>> step 1, making our attempts at mirroring pointless. In fact, in some
>> power cut cases, we could be left in a worse condition than if we
>> didn't try to compensate for power cuts, since we just killed our
>> backup table.
>
> I agree that it is not probably worth the effort, but would be nice to
> do, if someone has time and thinks this is useful. But I think it would
> be fair to request to add a comment which describes this hypothetical
> issue and this possible solution, would it?
Sure, I will add a comment, remove the option flag, and CC more
contributors (per your other recommendations) in a v2 patch.
Brian
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