ubi vol_size and lots of bad blocks

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 08:58:25 EDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 07:35 -0400, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> 
>   Be careful here -- the last time I looked, blocks that go
>   bad *ARE NOT* actually permanently marked as bad; they may
>   no longer be used during the current boot, but the next time
>   you reboot, they're eligible for attempted-but-often-failing
>   use once again.

If this happened to you, this must be because of a bug in your MTD
driver. UBI dimply calls MTD mark_bad() function to mark blocks bad.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy




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