[U-Boot] handling of bad blocks in nand

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jun 24 17:36:17 CEST 2010


On 06/24/2010 01:28 AM, Arno Steffen wrote:
> does it mean in other words - I don't have to care for the bad block,
> can write on the bad block address as it would be ok?

You can't write directly to that block, but it can be included in a 
range of blocks as long as the range is large enough to hold the data 
blocks plus the bad blocks.

> 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.

Right.

-Scott


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