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From: Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net>
To: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Incomplete nodes written to flash
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:14:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41346BB0.6030107@elitedvb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093953527.25339.70.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>

Josh Boyer wrote:

>Have you actually lost data?  I have seen the case where GC nodes don't
>get flushed to the medium on my board, but I haven't lost data.
>  
>
u-boot's jffs2_1pass ignores CRCs (i know, bad behaviour. I should fix 
that, or is there any other jffs2 reader avaiable?), and thus prefers 
the latest, incomplete version of the file.

>pdflushd will write out non-GC nodes.  GC nodes aren't flushed because
>of wasted space with padding I suppose.
>  
>
Ok, that sounds good.

I now see that the garbage collection is done to fill up write buffers, 
i.e. flush the important data to flash.

Felix

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31 11:22 Incomplete nodes written to flash Felix Domke
2004-08-31 11:58 ` Josh Boyer
2004-08-31 12:14   ` Felix Domke [this message]

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