AW: partitions and erase regions

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Florian Schirmer / TayTron wrote:

> Hi!
>
> >Since there was no protest I just went ahead and commited the "virtual"
> >erase region
> >patch to mtdpart.
>
> Just a short question :-)
>
> Situation:
>
> 2 partitions not aligned to erase sectors. The first jffs and the second
> cramfs. What happens if jffs writes to the last sector (the shared one) and
> just in the second the block was erased the power fails. Data loss on the
> second partition?
>
> If so please make virtual support a selectable option in kernel config. (If
> not already)

If so I would recommend backing it out completely.


Nicolas



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