UBIFS Corrupt during power failure

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:22 -0600, Eric Holmberg wrote:
> I verified with Spansion that the embedded erase algorithm first clears
> all 1's to 0's before erasing the bits to charge them back up to 1.

Yes, I found this information in the data sheet as well.

> The patch to write to the header is a great solution and I think it's
> the only possible solution.  Performance should be fine, since the
> 4-byte write should only take about 0.5ms which is insignificant
> compared to a typical PEB erase time of 700ms.

Yeah, nor erase is dead slow comparing to NAND.

> I will run 4 boards through torture tests starting tonight and let you
> know later this week!  Based upon the errors that I've seen and looking
> at the patch, I think that should solve the problem.

Nice. Note, with this patch I cannot reproduce UBIFS mount errors.
I am trying to see mount errors related to the buffered writes,
but cannot.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)