On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:43:13PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, mark gross wrote:
> > I need to get more details on this but I assume its a state where the > > meta data of the file system is committed to the emmc before lights go > > off such that when power is reapplied that the damage isn't too big. > I don't think you can guarantee that the metadata won't be damaged > without notifying the filesystem of the event (and making it react > appropriately). I guess with a journalling filesystem you'd hope that you can at any point write out what's in flight and have it be safe; if it's a non journalling filesystem of course all bets are off. _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
