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David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jun 13 17:35:32 EDT 2001
nico at cam.org said:
> If a sector is empty, it is simply put in the queue for signature
> stamping.
It's easier to erase it again than prove it's empty. Reading the whole
thing ten times wasn't sufficient - an improperly erased bit could return a
zero on the eleventh read, after the whole device was reading 0xFF on the ten
previous reads.
The erases aren't done synchronously - they're done in the background. They
shouldn't hold the mount up. I suspect the patch you committed will make it
start failing Vipin's powerfail tests again.
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