From: Sergei Sharonov <sergei.sharonov@halliburton.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 and frequent/small write operations
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:08:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20050404T224215-1@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1112640934.24487.375.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com
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?
> This has nothing to do with atomicity of writes with respect to power
> failure.
Sorry for the confusion. I did not mean that O_SYNC has anything to do
with atomicity, only that it is usually one of the ways to assure that
all the data is flushed to media. I guess I heard that O_SYNC does
not work with JFFS2, did not want to accept it and was provoking people
to confirm or disprove it ;-)
Sergei Sharonov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-04 21:13 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 [this message]
2005-04-05 8:43 ` Estelle HAMMACHE
2005-04-05 9:27 ` David Woodhouse
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