[Yaffs] Re: YAFFS fs images not working the way I expect

David Wuertele dave-gnus@bfnet.com
Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:32:24 -0700


Charles> I think this is falling down on the "dd" commands.  AFAIK,
Charles> "dd" will be ignoring the OOB stuff which is required by
Charles> YAFFS.  Go look in the mtd tools, I think there are some nand
Charles> specific tools like damddump or some such that will also
Charles> extract the OOB info.

So are you saying that I won't be able to preload a YAFFS filesystem
into my NAND flash unless my programmer can write OOB info???