From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Liu Hui <onlyflyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Is it an atomic operation for writing a page in NAND flash
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:41:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100120134142.GE30789@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c3b11251001200158w56bf5cb8l9a27ade9ec3524f2@mail.gmail.com>
Liu Hui wrote:
> This is a question confused me for a long time. As I know, writing a
> sector for a hard disk is atomic. That is to say, when we are writing
> a sector to hard disk and power failure happen, the sector will be
> written completely or not at all.
Are you sure about that?
I have never seen a reliable confirmation of it.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-20 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 9:58 Is it an atomic operation for writing a page in NAND flash Liu Hui
2010-01-20 10:13 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2010-01-20 13:11 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 13:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-20 14:25 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 14:54 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2010-01-20 15:11 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 16:09 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2010-01-21 1:37 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 16:17 ` David Parkinson
2010-01-20 16:35 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2010-01-20 23:08 ` Charles Manning
2010-01-20 13:41 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-01-20 13:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-20 14:06 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 14:38 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-20 14:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-20 14:52 ` Liu Hui
2010-01-20 14:01 ` Liu Hui
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