From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Nancy <nancydreaming@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Is there possible to integrate mtd ubi ubifs latest version in one git tree?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:44:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208259858.5965.220.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415114135.GA3556@shareable.org>
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:41 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> If erase counters are stored at the start of each block, for the block
> itself, what happens in this sequence?
>
> 1. Begin erase block.
> 2. Erase succeeds.
> 3. Power failure / system reset / watchdog / etc.
> 4. ....?
>
> Is the erase counter zeroed as a result of this?
It tries to minimize probability of situations like this by writing the
EC right after the erasure. But this still can happen of course. In this
case UBI uses the average erase-counter (calculated while scanning is
done) and writes it to this eraseblock.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 6:48 Is there possible to integrate mtd ubi ubifs latest version in one git tree? Nancy
2008-04-12 9:57 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-12 9:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-12 10:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-14 4:46 ` Nancy
2008-04-14 9:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-15 11:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-15 11:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2008-04-15 15:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-15 15:41 ` Artem Bityutskiy
[not found] ` <bae050c10804140435v5141dec6qd61b325a4a1ff6ad@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <1208173090.5965.187.camel@sauron>
2008-04-15 12:04 ` Nancy
2008-04-16 6:11 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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