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SubjectRe: [PATCH] UBI: allow atomic updates to sychronously erase old PEB
Just for 'blocking', or also all the 'erase's.

cheers,
Joel Reardon

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 14:20 +0200, Joel Reardon wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > If there's a power cut after the new version is written and the old one is
> > erased, then it is my understanding that while remounting UBI will detect
> > that the old version is not needed and put it on the erase queue.
>
> Yes.
>
> > The
> > higher layer that issued the call to update the block will have to do a
> > blocking clear of the ubi erase queue when remounting after unsafely
> > unmounting.
>
> Yes. You can do this if the security is enabled, I think, using
> 'ubi_sync()'.
>
> I did not have time to look at your patches, but one quick comment is
> that we usually call the argument which controls whether the function
> has to wait for the operation to complete or not 'sync', could you
> please follow this unwritten convention as well?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy
>


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