[Yaffs] Re: yaffs BAD sector management queries!

[Wookey]

+++ 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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