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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: hejianet <hejianet@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2 copy too long after mounting
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:42:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1352734966.2262.13.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5089EB4B.5020800@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 09:45 +0800, hejianet wrote:
> Sorry,maybe my question is long and bothering:(
> I try to make it more easily and clearly
> in jffs2_garbage_collect_deletion_dirent(),
> what does it mean, why in nand, we can't actually mark nodes obsolete
> pernamently
>     /* On a medium where we can't actually mark nodes obsolete
>        pernamently, such as NAND flash, ..... */

Because in NAND you cannot change the contents of a NAND page which has
already been written, because you have ECC for the data in the OOB. So
you cannot just mark a node as obsolete "in-place". In NOR you can do
this.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-12 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <50881109.3010107@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-25  1:41 ` jffs2 copy too long after mounting hejianet
2012-10-26  1:45   ` hejianet
2012-11-12 15:42     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-08-02  3:04 hejianet
2012-08-02  3:16 ` hejianet
2012-08-06 22:54   ` Brian Norris
2012-08-02  5:58 ` hejianet
2012-08-06 23:02   ` Brian Norris
2012-08-09  5:31     ` hejianet
2012-08-24  7:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-10-23  7:13   ` hejianet
2012-11-12 15:35     ` Artem Bityutskiy

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