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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Question/suggestion
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:00:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30104.1003305614@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IGEFJKJNHJDCBKALBJLLCEJJEPAA.joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se>

joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se said:
>  Does JFFS2 erase the blocks that are already erased?

Yes, because they might not be _completely_ erased - unless they have a 
cleanmarker node at the beginning, then it's possible that they're only 
partly-erased. So it erases them again, just to make sure.

> I also noticed that an umount hangs until kupdate is finished, should it?

There's no real reason for it to do so - can you get a backtrace (SysRq-T) 
and find out what it's waiting for? That should be fixable.

> Is it safe to power cycle the board during this initial formating? 

Yes. The formatting is done specifically to make sure it's safe to power 
cycle at any time.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-17  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-15 14:05 Read Only FS Jose Rodríguez Argente
2001-10-16  1:36 ` Tim Riker
2001-10-16  5:26   ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-16 16:29     ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund
2001-10-16 16:37       ` Question/suggestion David Woodhouse
2001-10-17  6:43         ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund
2001-10-17  8:00           ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-18 10:00             ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund
2001-10-18 10:09               ` Question/suggestion David Woodhouse
2001-10-18 10:27                 ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund
2001-10-18 10:38                   ` Question/suggestion David Woodhouse
2001-10-18 14:15                     ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund
2001-10-18 14:16                       ` Question/suggestion David Woodhouse
2001-11-02 11:37       ` Question/suggestion Joakim Tjernlund

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