[U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jun 24 09:44:48 CEST 2010


Dear Arno Steffen,

In message <AANLkTiktrnXK-erEMjHh9ALHMOhfJZMr09G57fidAsv1 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> The only thing I have to care is, that I have leave enough space
> between the partitions. As for instance : I need 10 blocks for a
> certain filesystem, give it 12 ? So it could correct 2 bad blocks in
> this range.

If you are dealing with NAND, and want any sort of reliability, you
want to use UBI.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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