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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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