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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] UBI: power cut emulation for testing
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 22:04:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150405200459.GA1118@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLxGvznA3m0vF=ygMsbqU0hVq7cpkDZWxCfqAQJKAutUhQj4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun 2015-04-05 21:49:27, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > On Thu 2015-03-26 23:59:50, david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at wrote:
> >> Emulate random power cuts by switching device to ro after a number of
> >> writes to allow simple power cut testing with nand-sim.
> >>
> >> Maximum and minimum number of successful writes before power cut and
> >> what kind of writes (EC header, VID header or none) to interrupt
> >> configurable via debugfs.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>
> >> ---
> >> V2: Remove broken check to prevent multiple triggering
> >
> > Does NAND always finish write of full block during powerfail?
> 
> Not sure if I correctly understand your question.
> Unless you don't have special hardware a write can be interrupted and
> can cause problems.

But this only emulates fail after a full block written, no?
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-05 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-26 22:59 [PATCH V2] UBI: power cut emulation for testing david.oberhollenzer
2015-04-05 19:31 ` Pavel Machek
2015-04-05 19:49   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-05 20:04     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-04-05 20:09       ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-05 20:25         ` Pavel Machek
2015-04-05 20:34           ` Richard Weinberger
2015-04-09  8:34 ` Richard Weinberger

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