Is it an atomic operation for writing a page in NAND flash

Jamie Lokier jamie at shareable.org
Wed Jan 20 08:41:42 EST 2010


Liu Hui wrote:
> This is a question confused me for a long time. As I know, writing a
> sector for a hard disk is atomic. That is to say, when we are writing
> a sector to hard disk and power failure happen, the sector will be
> written completely or not at all.

Are you sure about that?
I have never seen a reliable confirmation of it.

-- Jamie



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