Re: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 22 September 2005 13:34:30 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> Noone bothered defining it, but most everyone is happy about it being
> as it is.  Non-journalling filesystems would have severe corruption on
> unclean umounts.  lost+found would fill up much faster than people are
> used to, if 4-6 was common for hard disks.

Worse, actually.  Corruption will also happen for file data, which may
pass fsck just fine.  Your data is gone and noone told you about it.
;)

Jörn

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