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From: "Johan Adolfsson" <johan.adolfsson@axis.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Johan Adolfsson" <johan.adolfsson@axis.com>
Cc: <joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se>, <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: mkfs.jffs2 propsal and a question about burst reads
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fcf01c166cf$b26a5120$0a070d0a@axis.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011106152127.B31698@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de

> 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 )

/Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-06 14:21 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 [this message]
2001-11-06 14:38           ` Jörn Engel

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