On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 02:01 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > You can on NAND. ECC is done in software. And for a data structure as > simple as the 'tally', foregoing ECC is not a huge problem - most > bitflips are easily detected and the remaining only cause off-by-a-few > on the erase count.
You're only allowed a limited number of write cycles to each page though. So you can't just clear the bits in a 2112-byte page one at a time; typically when you clear the fifth bit, the contents of the whole page become undefined until the next erase cycle. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
