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Re: [ts-7000] Re: yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks
From: Jason Stahls <>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:23:28 -0400
j.chitte wrote:
> I'm a little hesitant to use ignoreBB until I have a strategy for detecting 
> the truly bad blocks. This fault itself will surely have produced some burn 
> out as fewer blocks were available. Some process needs to be run to prevent 
> arbitrary file errors occuring due to marking real bad blocks as good.

How about opening the block device and writing to it till it's full then 
format the flash again without the ignoreBB?  Or use mkfs to create a 
ext2 filesystem and have it check for bad blocks, then switch back to 
yaffs or jffs.

-- 
Jason Stahls


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