CLEANMARKER question

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jan 4 04:42:01 EST 2002


Joakim.Tjernlund at lumentis.se said:
> I have problems to understand the CLEANMARKER concept. Can a flash
> erase  sector which has a CLEANMARKER in the beginning contain any
> data or can one  assume that the rest of the erase sector is erased?

Yes, it can contain data. The CLEANMARKER is there just to show that the 
erase completed successfully. It's not erased before the block is actually 
filled with data.

What are your plans for improving the mount speed?

--
dwmw2






More information about the linux-mtd mailing list