State of read-only filesystems in NAND / MTD bad blocks handling when reading

[Thilo Fromm]

Hello Gregory,

>>>> gluebi + mtdblock_ro doesn't work ?
>>>
>>> Can you paint the abstraction layer call flow involved in this for a
>>> single read transaction and _not_ burst out laughing ;) ? We're on an
>>> embedded system, man :)
>>
>> The crucial issue is really what performance you get, gluebi is fairly
>> transparent so I don't think you loose any significant amount.
>
> Indeed with the direct approach we had with ubi_blk, the performance appeared
> to be _slightly_ better with ubiblk than gluebi+mtdblock_ro, according to our
>  benchmarks (see  http://elinux.org/Flash_Filesystem_Benchmarks )

Yay, benchmarks! Thanks for the link, Gregory.

Regards,
Thilo

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