From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Johan Adolfsson <johan.adolfsson@axis.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mkfs.jffs2 propsal and a question about burst reads
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:38:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011106153804.C31698@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fcf01c166cf$b26a5120$0a070d0a@axis.se>; from johan.adolfsson@axis.com on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:31:17PM +0100
> > 2) Flash is a write-once medium. You cannot overwrite the markers, you
> > have to delete again.
>
> If you have some bits in the flash zeroed and the data you want to write
> at that position also contains zero bits you should be just fine.
> (assuming an erased flash is all 0xFF's )
Granted. This might be useful for the rw block device driver to save
some delete operations, but is rare enough to just keep things simple
and ignore it. :)
Jörn
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-06 0:37 Need help understanding cfi_probe and cfi_cmdset_0002 jglennon
2001-11-06 7:27 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-06 11:40 ` mkfs.jffs2 propsal and a question about burst reads Joakim Tjernlund
2001-11-06 12:13 ` Jörn Engel
2001-11-06 13:06 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-11-06 14:07 ` Jörn Engel
2001-11-07 4:07 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-07 12:37 ` Jörn Engel
2001-11-08 2:12 ` journaling Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-08 13:06 ` journaling Jörn Engel
2001-11-13 16:12 ` journaling Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-06 13:22 ` mkfs.jffs2 propsal and a question about burst reads David Woodhouse
2001-11-06 13:20 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-06 13:45 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-11-06 14:03 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-11-06 14:21 ` Jörn Engel
2001-11-06 14:31 ` Johan Adolfsson
2001-11-06 14:38 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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