From: He YunLei <heyunlei@huawei.com>
To: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Subject: Data lost in Android app for not write new checkpoint
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:28:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55BADD52.9060901@huawei.com> (raw)
Hi all,
Recently I did some test with f2fs on my Android phone, and found a problem
which I didn't know how to tackle it.
I use my Android phone with /data partition formatted by mkfs.f2fs. When the
phone just started, I check the f2fs status by reading the file /sys/kernel/debug/f2fs/status
in debugfs.
CP calls: 10
GC calls: 19 (BG: 19)
- data segments : 19 (19)
- node segments : 0 (0)
We can see /data partition has done 10 times write_checkpoint since f2fs is mounted
on the phone, it also has triggered 19 times background GC.
******
Here I took some photos consecutively, and check the file /sys/kernel/debug/f2fs/status again
******
CP calls: 10
GC calls: 20 (BG: 20)
- data segments : 20 (20)
- node segments : 0 (0)
there is no change in CP calls number and background GC doesn't write new checkpoint.
if then a sudden power failure or system crash occur, the photos will be lost when the phone
restart, and a sync before crash will avoid the data lost.
I think this problem is bad for user experience of using Android phone with f2fs.
How do we deal with such situation? I wish you and other developers in this list could help
me in a correct way.
Thanks,
He
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-31 2:28 He YunLei [this message]
2015-07-31 6:18 ` Data lost in Android app for not write new checkpoint Chao Yu
2015-07-31 10:49 ` Chao Yu
2015-07-31 12:00 ` Bintian
2015-08-04 13:16 ` He YunLei
2015-08-04 18:29 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-08-06 10:17 ` Chao Yu
2015-08-07 6:26 ` He YunLei
2015-08-07 9:18 ` Chao Yu
2015-08-07 9:50 ` Chao Yu
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