From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [213.86.99.237] (helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 18eBmy-0000eY-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:19:21 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: "Brian Peterson" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: DiskOnChip 2000 read only file system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:50:13 +0000 Message-ID: <8318.1043923813@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: purdue1996@hotmail.com said: > During some testing of power loss scenarios, I lose the ability to > use the device. The kernel boots and after it cleans up from the > unclean unmount, I receive kernel messages indicating "Argh! No free > blocks found!..." We should be able to fix this. > What level of confidence is there that the read only partition would > be protected from this problem. In other words, can the data located > in the Read only partition be trusted? The data on the read only partition cannot be trusted any more than the data in the read-write partition. It's all in one big pseudo-filesystem, the partitioning is purely cosmetic. -- dwmw2