Hi Jon,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:15:10, Jon Povey wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > Jon Povey wrote:
> >> I am seeing rare SD card write corruption on DM355 running 2.6.36.
> >> The system will get itself into a state where it appears all SD
> >> writes are offset by two bytes. This is using a vfat filesystem on
> >> the SD, and affects the FAT and directories at least.
> >
> > we observe something similar with the 2.6.32 kernel. In our case, it
> > happens almost systematically if we remove the SD card while
> > a transfer is occuring.
> 
> Thanks for the report. That sounds like what we are seeing.
> I suspect some kind of incomplete DMA or controller state clearing
> on surprise removal.

It will also be useful to see if using journalling filesystems like ext3
or ext4 helps the situation.

Thanks,
Sekhar

> 
> Will see if I can debug it and post a patch if I work it out.
> 
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