Re: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash

[Artem B. Bityutskiy]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:48:39 +0400, "Artem B. Bityutskiy" said:
>
> > Joern meant that if HDD starts a block write operation, it will 
> > accomplish it even if power-fail happens (probably there are some 
> > capacitors there). So, it is impossible, say, that HDD has written one 
> > half of a sector and has not written the other half.
>
> Hard drives contain capacitors to prevent writing of runt sectors on
> a powerfail?  Didn't we go around this a while ago and decide it's mostly
> urban legend, and that plenty of people have seen runt/bad sectors?

No idea. But theoretically it should be so, at least "good" drives 
should. May be a competent person will comment on this, that's quite 
interesting.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
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