jffs2 usage question: nandwrite

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Fri Nov 7 00:38:12 PST 2014


On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Iwo Mergler wrote:

> JFFS2 keeps all the relevant information in every block. That is, you 
> can shuffle the erase blocks any way you like and you still have a valid 
> file system.
> 
> The holes made by skipping bad blocks are not a problem.

Additionally, JFFS2 is bad-block-aware, so it knows that there can be bad 
blocks in a partition on which a file system is mounted, and avoids trying 
to use them.

/Ricard
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