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

[Gregory CLEMENT]

> Oh, okay, thanks for the info, so we need to take care about bit rot,
> too. I don't think this is too big a challenge.
>
> Hey guys, I think I've got a bold idea. Could I re-use parts of UBI's
> EB handling code in my readonly FTL? It depends on whether the erase
> block scrubbing routines within UBIFS are generic enough to be used by
> other components. Or whether the linux-mtd project is interested in
> having these routines re-usable at some point in the future when they
> are not re-usable right now.
>
> Comments, suggestions?

I think it's better to use UBI in a whole than just take most of its code.
Indeed UBI is better if it handles all the flash, at least for wear leveling.

That one of the reason we choose to not continue to work on MTDBLCK_RO
and switch to ubi_blk.

>
> Regards,
> Thilo
>
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Gregory CLEMENT