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

[Liu Hui]

I didn't see this e-mail of Theo and I also can't find it in my
fs-devel mail list, could you please share it with us?

much appreciated!

2010/1/20 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:41 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Theo sent a longish e-mail some time ago to fs-devel or lkml, explaining
> why this almost never true in practice.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
>
>



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Thanks & Best Regards
Liu Hui
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