JFFS2: checking CRCs twice!?

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 12 January 2005 12:43:30 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> I've seen them fail.  Multiple times.  And yes, the CRCs detected it and
> helped me figure out that the hardware was borked.

Ok, Empiria has spoken, I stand corrected.

> You may be right that failures are rare, and when they do occur the
> flash definitely needs to be replaced.  But I'd much rather debug a card
> that had CRC errors than one that just had apps mysteriously getting
> SIGILL because a bit flipped and the filesystem didn't bother to verify
> the data before using it.

Agreed.  So we still need checksums, and have the type of checksums
left to argue about.

Jörn

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