Preparing for deployment

It is generally not recommended to hard-code physical on-NAND locations in case of factory bad blocks or block failures in the field. [1] Instead it is preferable to set up partitions on the chip with a generous safety margin and to store data in a location-independent way. This is commonly achieved by placing logical tags in the spare area of each page, or using a log-structured filesystem such as YAFFS. Such strategies remove the dependence on physical addressing, at the cost of increased complexity.

The upshot of this is that you cannot reliably create a simple binary image to bulk-program in the factory. A more complicated programming operation is required to take account of your chip partitions, logical addressing strategy and any bad blocks which may be encountered during write.