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From: Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin@egholm-nielsen.dk>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:22:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cuti4g$g6h$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108425786.22597.6.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

Hi,

>>>>JFFS2 on NAND flash uses a page buffer. It is flushed to the flash when
>>>>it is full, or when you do fsync, sync or umount.
>>>Does that mean that I have to call fsync each time after fclose a file ?
> Yes. It's precisely the same as with other file systems. If you write to
> a file, close it and then lose power immediately, your data may be lost.
> It's not guaranteed to be on the medium until you sync.
Well, as someone told me the other day on the IRC-channel, the 
writebuffer is flushed automatically if the buffer has not been accessed 
for X (2?) seconds (controlled by the VFS, right?)...

Correct me if I'm wrong...

// Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14 17:08 jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device Frédéric Janot
2005-02-14 17:24 ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-02-14 17:58   ` Frédéric Janot
2005-02-14 18:04     ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-02-15  0:03       ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-15 19:22         ` Martin Egholm Nielsen [this message]
2005-02-15 19:46           ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-15 20:03             ` Josh Boyer
2005-02-16  7:38               ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-02-14 18:08     ` Josh Boyer

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