From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17aPPJ-0002CB-00 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:31:01 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <003d01c2399a$b519a9e0$0200a8c0@telia.com> References: <003d01c2399a$b519a9e0$0200a8c0@telia.com> To: "Joakim Tjernlund" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: write suspend and/or erase suspend Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:31:00 +0100 Message-ID: <12285.1028244660@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se said: > When a erase or write is suspened to allow some other part of the FS > to read, is that read garanted to read from another sector than the > one that has been suspended? > I am asking since I think it's not allowed to access the sector that > has a suspended operation. I am using Intel Strata Flash. Correct. Currently we don't suspend writes, but when we do we need to make sure we get that right. Reading from a block on which an erase is in progress is a silly idea anyway, so I don't care that we don't check for that and make the reader wait. -- dwmw2