Cramfs on NAND

[Josh Boyer]

On 3/2/06, Terence Soh <gopher at singnet.com.sg> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I hear that cramfs on NAND flash is not a good idea because of the bad
> blocks. Is this still true? There was talks some time  ago about making
> cramfs work on top on NAND.
> <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2004-May/009784.html>

Yes, it's still true.  CRAMFS expects it's data to be contiguous so
unless you have something similar to a flash translation layer that
hides the bad blocks, insanity will ensue.

> If this is true, are there any recommendations of what other fs to use.
> I already have one partition of jffs2 to store read-write files.

Could you use a read-only JFFS2 partition?

josh