jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on NAND device
Josh Boyer
jdub at us.ibm.com
Tue Feb 15 15:03:33 EST 2005
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:46 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 20:22 +0100, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> > Well, as someone told me the other day on the IRC-channel, the
> > writebuffer is flushed automatically if the buffer has not been accessed
> > for X (2?) seconds (controlled by the VFS, right?)...
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong...
>
> Not quite. The write buffer is flushed every 5 seconds, unless you tune
> it using the /proc entry. It's controlled by kupdated, which syncs the
> supers, which flushes the write buffer in JFFS2.
>
> If the write buffer contains GC data, that isn't flushed at all.
Just to clarify that, if the buffer contains _only_ GC data it isn't
flushed. If it contains GC + inode data, all of that data is.
josh
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