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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quick erase format option
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:37:18 +0100
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On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:25 +0100, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
> 
> This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased
> flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where
> the flash arrived erased.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> 

This scares me, given the lengths we had to go to in JFFS2 to cope with
blocks which *look* like they're erased, but which actually start losing
data as soon as you start writing to them because the erase didn't
complete.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation