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From: Estelle HAMMACHE <estelle.hammache@st.com>
To: Sergei Sharonov <sergei.sharonov@halliburton.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 and frequent/small write operations
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42524FBD.C418A0E6@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20050404T224215-1@post.gmane.org

Hi Sergei,

Sergei Sharonov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:15 +0000, Sergei Sharonov wrote:
> > > I was told that O_SYNC flag for open does not work with JFFS2 (!?).
> >
> > You misunderstood. On NOR flash, O_SYNC does nothing because JFFS2 is
> > entirely synchronous anyway. On NAND flash, I believe that O_SYNC does
> > what it is supposed to -- any write will have reached the medium before
> > the write() system call returns.
> 
> Thanks, that is good to know. It was suggested by others
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.mtd/12175/match=+sync
> that it may not work on JFFS2. Estelle?

In the quoted message it was pretty clear that I don't know 
one way or another (don't use linux VFS).
I was referring to previous discussions such as
"jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device" in the
February archive, where O_SYNC is _not_ proposed as a solution
to force fsync.
Sorry for the confusion... I'm glad this erroneous notion
is corrected.

bye
Estelle

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04 13:58 JFFS2 and frequent/small write operations Gianluca Moro
2005-04-04 17:15 ` Sergei Sharonov
2005-04-04 18:55   ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-04 21:08     ` Sergei Sharonov
2005-04-05  8:43       ` Estelle HAMMACHE [this message]
2005-04-05  9:27         ` David Woodhouse

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