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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: R&D4 <r&d4@dave-tech.it>,
	mtd_mailinglist <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 as transactional FS (in other words: how to be sure that data have been writtent correctly from userspace)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:04:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173359044.3461.433.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070308125416.GB23216@lazybastard.org>

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 13:54 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> Last time I checked, JFFS2 got one case wrong.  Don't remember which
> one,
> but there are not that many to check:
>  - mount -o sync
>  - open(..., O_SYNC);

I don't think we've implemented those two at all.

>  - fsync()
>  - sync()

These two should work.

> [ Side note - NOR flash can still have a write buffer and require
> explicit sync. ]

True. For 'NOR' read 'flash without wbuf' and for 'NAND' read 'flash
with wbuf'.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08  9:49 JFFS2 as transactional FS (in other words: how to be sure that data have been writtent correctly from userspace) R&D4
2007-03-08 10:51 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-08 12:54   ` Jörn Engel
2007-03-08 13:04     ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-03-08 13:12       ` Jörn Engel
2007-03-08 13:22         ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-08 13:44           ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-08 13:58             ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-08 14:35               ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-08 14:43                 ` Jörn Engel

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