Garbage Collection Questions?

John Harbold harbold at glimmerglass.com
Mon Dec 14 20:57:14 EST 2009


Hello,

            I have some questions on some JFFS2 scenarios running Linux kernel 2.6.10.  These scenarios have to do with the state of a JFFS2 partition while its associated garbage collection kernel thread is running:

	* What would happen to a JFFS2 partition after a power failure when, 	before the power failure happened, the garbage collection thread was 	obsoleting nodes?

	* What would happen to a JFFS2 partition if while the garbage 	collection thread was active and the partition was marked as read-	only?  Would the obsolete nodes be obliterated?

John Harbold




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