Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:51:13 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/22 take 3] UBI: Unsorted Block Images |
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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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