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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