Zhang,

        You could try defining YAFFS_IGNORE_TAGS_ECC in fs/yaffs2/yaffs_ecc.h
and give it a shot. If this works it would mean, h/w ECC uses up the OOB
spare area leaving no space
for YAFFS2 to mark bad blocks hence showing 100% usage.

Regards,
Philby


On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:55 -0500, Narnakaje, Snehaprabha wrote:
> Zhang,
> 
>  
> 
> Which software codebase/release are you using here on DM6446 EVM?
> 
>  
> 
> The default NAND configuration for DM6446 EVM is to use a small block
> NAND flash (with page size = 512bytes) and 1-bit HW ECC. If the driver
> configuration does not match with what the NAND device expects, all
> blocks of the NAND device can come back as bad blocks. In which case,
> the corresponding partition will have 100% space used.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sneha
> 
>  
> 
>                                    
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:[email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of shaofeng zhang
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Problem with YAFFS2 on LargePage NAND
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hi, All,
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> I am using a 128MB LargePage Nand Flash on my DVEVM board (DM6446),
> and when I mount the /dev/mtdblock4 throught YAFFS2 fs type, I found
> that the use% of my nand is 100% as the following:
> 
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> rootfs                 38G   28G  8.0G  78% /
> /dev/root              38G   28G  8.0G  78% /
> none                   10M  2.5M  7.6M  25% /dev
> tmpfs                  59M     0   59M   0% /tmp
> none                   10M  2.5M  7.6M  25% /dev
> tmpfs                  59M     0   59M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mtdblock4        120M  120M     0 100% /mnt/nand
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> But I first use flash_eraseall to erase the /dev/mtd4 before mounting
> the /dev/mtdblock4 with YAFFS2
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Could anyone tell me some info about the message?
> 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> 
> Zhang
> 
> 
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