Do I have to umount JFFS2?

[alfred hitch]

Hi Steven, Peter,

I would like to put in some problems we are also facing. I had
reported it sometime back here also.

On our system, we are observing that files on flash (jffs2 intel cfi nand)
are getting corrupted, after  a number of resets and say 3 months of usage)

Anyone seen anything like this ? any clues on how one can look into this.

Regards,
Alfred

On 12/15/05, Peter Menzebach <pm-mtd at mw-itcon.de> wrote:
> Steven Scholz wrote:
> > Jarkko Lavinen wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:12:31AM +0100, ext Steven Scholz wrote:
> >>
> >>> Now I wonder if it is needed to umount this partition explicitly before
> >>> rebooting? Or mount it read only first by having
> >>
> >> JFFS2 is synhronous except for the write buffer (used with Nand chips).
> >> Doing sync is enough and flushes the write buffer.
> >
> > Is "sync()" done by the kernel before reboot? Or do I have to call "sync"?
> >
> Hi Steven,
> afaik,
> and this this is inline with my experience, you have call sync before
> reboot.
> Since I write only complete files to jffs2, I reduced the timer, which
> flushes the write buffer automatically from 3 seconds to 500 ms.
> In that case, I normally get no errors even in case of a hard reset.
>
> Otherwise I get some "found empty flash at" and some CRC errors. The
> filesystem as whole should remain in a stable state in any case (that's
> the main reason apart from wear levelling for jffs2, I think)
>
>
> Best regards
> Peter
>
>
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