[U-Boot] Q: nand usage

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear ran shalit,

In message <31183736.post at talk.nabble.com> you wrote:
> 
> I think my question was not very well expressed. I ment to ask about the
> mapping of the partitions inside the NAND: Does each partitions need some
> spare blocks (padding block) becuase of the bad block skipping in the Nand ?
> As I said, I did not find any information about the strategy of mapping
> partitions in the Nand. 

As you are talking about partitions, I assume you refert to the MTD
partitioning.  In this case the bad block handling needs to be done in
by the file system code, when you create a file system insinde one of
the partitions.

[Note that this differs from UBI, where bad block handling is done for
the whole device, independent of the volumes that you create on top of
it.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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