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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Subject: Re: UBIFS partition on NOR flash not mountable after power cut test
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:28:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291372085.2365.49.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101203110719.3a9d14f2@wker>

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 11:07 +0100, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> UBI: scrubbed PEB 149 (LEB 0:19), data moved to PEB 40
> 
> My question is: should this PEB really be preserved? I think, no.
> It was prepared for erasure and would be entirely erased if no
> interruption would occur.

Well, in general, my thinking is, if only the EC header is corrupted, we
do not know why - may be this was just because of some bit-flips or
radiation, and UBI better preserves it, just in case. I mean, there is a
risk to destroy useful data otherwise.

Then the upper layer SW like UBIFS should know what it was erasing, and
should re-issue the erasure. This is also a requirement made by the
"unstable bits" problem Matthiew found on NAND, and challenged me with.

To put is simple: I think it is saver for UBI to preserve it. Upper
layers will erase it again if it is not needed.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-03 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 18:50 UBIFS partition on NOR flash not mountable after power cut test Anatolij Gustschin
2010-11-29 20:33 ` Mark Mason
2010-12-02  3:47   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02  4:10     ` Mark Mason
2010-12-02  9:17       ` Detlev Zundel
2010-11-30 10:41 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2010-11-30 15:35   ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-01  9:38     ` Anatolij Gustschin
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTikEDQyNttTcKgHLwhR53sYSFbtVK-oy2S3END46@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-01  9:47       ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2010-12-01  9:55       ` Anatolij Gustschin
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTikci0e2jaHCarA9HG86b_C-1UUcT_PMy-Q_mBrP@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-01 13:06           ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2010-12-02  3:51   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-01 12:05 ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-01 15:44   ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-02  4:01     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02  4:42     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02  9:46       ` Matthieu CASTET
2010-12-02 12:18         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02  9:57       ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-02 12:18         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02 13:23           ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-02 13:35             ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02 13:50               ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-02 13:57                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-02 14:18                   ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-03 10:07       ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-03 10:23         ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-03 10:28         ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-12-03 10:41           ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-03 10:49         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-12-03 11:15       ` Anatolij Gustschin
2010-12-02  3:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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