[PATCH] Add quick erase format option

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Aug 9 04:37:18 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:25 +0100, stefani at seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani at seibold.net>
> 
> This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased
> flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where
> the flash arrived erased.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani at seibold.net> 

This scares me, given the lengths we had to go to in JFFS2 to cope with
blocks which *look* like they're erased, but which actually start losing
data as soon as you start writing to them because the erase didn't
complete.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation





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