[Yaffs] Re: yaffs BAD sector management queries!

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Author: Wookey
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Subject: [Yaffs] Re: yaffs BAD sector management queries!
+++ Abhishek Bhattacharya [04-10-26 13:57 +0530]:
> Hello Charles
>
> I have a doubt about BAD sector management.


> Well, we do a scan for bad blocks at boot up, fine! In your last mail , we
> came to know that, once you mark it DEAD we never use it again, but if there
> is a situation where a block becomes BAD at run time, how should we counter
> such a situation?


YAFFS detects such runtime failures (by the errors it gets back from the OS)
and marks any such blocks BAD so they are not used again.

Wookey
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