[Yaffs] Re: Using yaffs images to program NAND flash YAFFS partitions

[Wookey]

+++ ÀÌÀå¿ø [05-02-23 16:28 +0900]:
> Hi, 
> I've learned before that when using a YAFFS image (made by mkyaffsimage)
> and dumping it on a NAND device, the first block of the YAFFS partition should be 
> not written, as the first block is reserved for YAFFS.
> But in that case, what should I do if the first block of the partition is to be marked as bad?

If that is the case then you have to consider the whole device bad. My
understanding is that the first block is supposed to be guaranteed working.

In fact it is only 'reserved' in the sense that we use 0 to mean something
else so block 0 is not used for real data. This means that it will probably
work fine even if block 0 is duff.

I think that's right, and hasn't changed for YAFFS2. (charles?).

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