[PATCH] [RFC] UBI: Implement Fastmap support

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:26 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On 24.05.2012 10:19, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> >> After thinking a bit more about this case I think the best we can to
> >> is
> >> switching to read-only mode if ubi_update_fastmap()
> >> fails.
> >>
> > Unless it fails because of -EIO, which means the PEB may become bad and
> > you need to pick a different one and schedule the faulty one for
> > torturing and marking as bad.
> 
> Wouldn't make more sense if ubi_update_fastmap() handles the -EIO case 
> internally?

Probably, I just meant that at the end the faulty PEB should end up
being scheduled for erasure and torturing like all other places do it.
We should preferably have one code path which marks PEBs as bad. It is
much easier than to make changes there.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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