Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add quick erase format option | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:37:18 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:25 +0100, stefani@seibold.net wrote: > From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> > > This patch add a quick format option which skips erasing of already erased > flash blocks. This is useful for first time production environments where > the flash arrived erased. > > Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
This scares me, given the lengths we had to go to in JFFS2 to cope with blocks which *look* like they're erased, but which actually start losing data as soon as you start writing to them because the erase didn't complete.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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