nandwrite/ubi memory corruption?

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri Oct 17 08:06:14 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:10 +1300, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Nothing was apparently broken after ubiformat, system kept running
> smoothly. But I can't use ubiformat for writing kernel image, can I?
> 
> Is there any other way to write raw kernel image to /dev/mtd1 other than
> using nandwrite?

Using nandwrite for UBI is bad by definition because you loose your
erase-counters and screw up wear-leveling.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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