Re: [Yaffs] Yaffs2 create bad blocks?

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Author: Jon Masters
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To: yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Yaffs2 create bad blocks?
On 1/6/06, Chun Kit Edwin Lau <> wrote:

>         I have two questions.  First, I lost all the files when I umount a
> yaffs2 partition.  I read somewhere in this mailing list that it was an
> known issue from mtd.  May I know if there is a quick fix for it?
> Second, I tried to dd a file containing all zeros of ~155MB to the
> yaffs2 partition.


Can we /please/ just get the MTD layer to export some kind of version
dependency that YAFFS can use to determine whether it will work
against a particular release? It would be simple to then have a
blacklist of known-bad MTDs or the reverse (which would be better).

Jon.