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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: "Morand, Guy" <Guy.Morand@comet.ch>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: UBIFS corruption and UBI + unstable bit questions
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:50:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55157C3B.20500@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68AC191B3EB2874F99C36CD9CA3A6D42196181@cgpmbx01.comet.ch>

Am 27.03.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Morand, Guy:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for clarifying!
> 
>> But it depends on the type of the corruption.
> What do you mean by "type of the corruption". Is it about a PEB containing the 
> volume table corrupting every volumes on the MTD device? I can't imagine a PEB
> containing "regular data" corrupting the whole MTD device or correct me if I'm 
> wrong! I guess this should be extremely rare as we don't update the volume table 
> every day ...

We save the volume table twice. But you can't expect that UBI or UBIFS will
survive perfectly fine if random PEBs tun out of the sudden bad.

>> Okay. That's what I thought. I've never seen the issue on serious hardware.
> Serious hardware, does that mean with seriously select components?

Yes.

Thanks,
//richard

      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-27 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-26 16:00 UBIFS corruption and UBI + unstable bit questions Morand, Guy
2015-03-26 16:45 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-03-26 17:21   ` AW: " Morand, Guy
     [not found]   ` <68AC191B3EB2874F99C36CD9CA3A6D42195ED8@cgpmbx01.comet.ch>
2015-03-26 18:17     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-03-27 13:30       ` Morand, Guy
2015-03-27 15:50         ` Richard Weinberger [this message]

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