From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:33:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <430455D1.6000409@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124358169.13511.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox wrote:
>On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 09:26 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
>
>>everything out first and then fall back on sector-by-sector to determine
>>where an error occurs. This will only break if the problematic sector
>>keeps shifting around, but at that point the card is probably toast
>>anyway (if the thing keeps moving how can you bad block it?).
>>
>>
>
>Providing the sectors are not finally completed to higher levels until
>they are written that works fine.
>
I don't think there's any risk of that. What _might_ happen is that more
data gets written to disk than is reported to the upper layers because
of these buffering issues.
Rgds
Pierre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-18 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-14 12:41 [PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes Pierre Ossman
2005-08-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 5:48 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-08-18 5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 6:38 ` Russell King
2005-08-18 7:26 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-08-18 8:23 ` Russell King
2005-08-18 8:48 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-08-18 20:19 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-19 5:00 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-08-19 7:58 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-19 8:12 ` Pierre Ossman
2005-08-18 9:42 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-18 9:33 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
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