[PATCH v3 00/10] About the SLC/MLC

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Aug 26 08:41:53 EDT 2013


Dear Huang Shijie,

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:36:38 +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> In current mtd code, the MTD_NANDFLASH is used to represent both the
> SLC nand MLC(including the TLC). But we already have the MTD_MLCNANDFLASH
> to stand for the MLC. What is worse is that the JFFS2 may run on the MLC
> nand with current code. For the reason of READ/WRITE disturbance, the JFFS2
> should runs on the SLC only,

Pardon the probably very silly question, but would you mind giving more
details about why JFFS2 is not appropriate on MLC flashes? Is there
anything that UBI/UBIFS does that JFFS2 isn't doing to take into
account read/write disturbance?

Thanks,

Thomas
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