From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "stefani@seibold.net" <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quick erase format option
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:37:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281343038.12908.25.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1281342353-18180-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:25 +0100, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
>
> This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased
> flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where
> the flash arrived erased.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
This scares me, given the lengths we had to go to in JFFS2 to cope with
blocks which *look* like they're erased, but which actually start losing
data as soon as you start writing to them because the erase didn't
complete.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 8:25 [PATCH] Add quick erase format option stefani
2010-08-09 8:37 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2010-08-09 8:52 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-08-09 11:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-09 13:37 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-08-09 13:54 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-08-29 11:30 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-29 12:20 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-31 6:42 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-09-01 0:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-02 6:53 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-09-02 10:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-02 11:42 ` Stefani Seibold
2018-06-20 5:38 ` Richard Weinberger
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