[PATCH mtd-www] UBI FAQ: suggest omission of vol_size option

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 13:17:15 EDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 22:27 +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> OLPC set vol_size based on the size of the target NAND and found out
> that it resulted in some systems being unbootable, where such systems
> had a lot of bad blocks on their flash.
> 
> For distributors such as OLPC wishing to maximize robustness in the
> face of varying bad block counts, it makes a lot of sense to avoid
> the vol_size option and let it be calculated automatically.
> Document this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>

Pushed both to mtd-www, thanks a lot!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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