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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images
On Mon, 26 March 2007 10:45:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> No, on NAND flash it's a limitation of the hardware. The number of write
> cycles you can perform to a given page is limited. Exceed it and the
> contents of that page become undefined due to leakage, until you next
> erase it.

Are you sure? Do you have any specs or similar that state this?

So far I have only encountered this limitation by word of mouth. And
such a myth coming from ECC effects is nothing that would surprise me.

Jörn

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