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From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Patrick Hilt <philt@pioneer-pdt.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS 2 Question
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:38:14 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40EFB906.7060701@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407091608.14442.philt@pioneer-pdt.com>

Patrick Hilt wrote:
> Hi list!
> Is there a way to make sure data is being written to physical flash when using 
> JFFS2? In other words, After writing a file on a JFFS2 partition, is there 
> anything that can be done to make sure that the data is getting written to 
> the flash right away? Would "sync" or "fsync" have that effect?

I believe that jffs2 is a synchronous filesystem in any case. By the time your application has 
returned from the write() call, the data is on flash.

It certainly worked that way while I was debugging some software that did stupid things like write 
800kb files 1 byte at a time.

Regards,
Brad

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-10  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-09 23:08 JFFS 2 Question Patrick Hilt
2004-07-10  9:31 ` Mike Wellington
2004-07-10  9:38 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2004-07-10 10:18   ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-07-10 11:50   ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-07-15 16:47 ` Patrick Hilt

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