data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash

[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:36 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Image this block contains the used block bitmap of ext2.  All blocks
> handled with this bitmap are free, so the complete block contains
> zeroes.  Now we allocate a single block, writing a single one to the
> bitmap.  When writing, a power failure happens right after the erase:
> 
> Before:
> 00000000000
> 
> After:
> FFFFFFFFFF
> 
> Gee, every single block is used now.  Good thing this happened to the
> block bitmap, so we only lost some space on the fs.  Somewhere else,
> we'd have data corruption.
> 
> Any hard disk filesystem will suffer some kind of corruption in such a
> case.  They heavily depend on the non-existance of 4-6.

Oh OK, Got it, thanks.

> > P.S. I actually missed the mailing list, this should have gone to the 
> > MTD ML. So let's move there please.
> 
> As always.  You fuck it up, I get to fix it. ;)
hehe :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.