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From: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
To: Dmitry Bazhenov <atrey@emcraft.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 node versioning problem?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 18:40:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4458C0C4.9090601@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605031828.51552.atrey@emcraft.com>

Dmitry Bazhenov wrote:
> I think it can happen. I can imagine at least one scenario where such 
> situation can occur. Of course, in normal circumstances it is hardly possible 
> but in the case of a powerfail it can be.
> 	1. Assume, upon a call to jffs2_commit_write() function the
> 	f->highest_version has the maximum value.
> 	2. jffs2_commit_write() increments f->highest_version which becomes 0.
> 	3. jffs2_commit_write() invokes jffs2_write_dnode() with version=0.

I meant, whether it can happen with a real-life flash device taking into 
account it's limited lifetime. Bear in mind, each eraseblock has limited 
resource. I guess for huge flashes this may be the case, but JFFS2 is 
not usable on them anyway. I'm too lazy to look at digits.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-03 11:56 JFFS2 node versioning problem? Dmitry Bazhenov
2006-05-03 12:02 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-05-03 14:28   ` Dmitry Bazhenov
2006-05-03 14:35     ` Dmitry Bazhenov
2006-05-03 14:42       ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-05-03 14:40     ` Artem B. Bityutskiy [this message]
2006-05-03 15:07       ` Dmitry Bazhenov
2006-05-03 15:07     ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-03 15:11       ` Josh Boyer
2006-05-03 15:21       ` Jörn Engel

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