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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@sigma-star.at>
To: Doug Crawford <dcraw101@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ubifs robustness with early power cut warning
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19830307.zslJMcUXK2@blindfold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAEsGzKDarv476=FW5dkKOt9-AD82miHdn1Ku59WAvdF-+qxzQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am Montag, 2. Oktober 2017, 19:33:01 CEST schrieb Doug Crawford:
> the freeze/thaw sounds like what I need.  I guess using the fsfreeze
> tool from util-linux would work?  Is all of that implemented in the
> VFS layer?  I see some recent patches for adding UBIFS specific
> freeze/thaw functionality?

Currently UBIFS does not support freeze/thaw.
But adding this feature shouldn't be a big deal.

On the other hand, if your application behaves correctly power-cut would
never cause data loss.
If you do, UBIFS or the MTD driver are buggy.

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-29 23:20 ubifs robustness with early power cut warning Doug Crawford
2017-09-30 16:19 ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-02 16:14   ` Doug Crawford
2017-10-02 16:45     ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-02 17:33       ` Doug Crawford
2017-10-02 18:03         ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2017-10-02  8:06 ` Kees Trommel
2017-10-02 11:35   ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-03  6:57     ` Kees Trommel
     [not found]     ` <7b89bbfe-8503-a50a-0271-09d69a99eeec@aimvalley.nl>
2017-10-03  7:26       ` Richard Weinberger

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