Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-05-05 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:08:09PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Is it possible to fix the erasing? Yes, but it will take many seconds to do it slowly enough for the few cards that are not happy about doing it quickly. This will slow fs-update still further. (We might invest more in guessing how

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-05-05 Thread Mitch Bradley
On 5/5/2011 9:08 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 5 May 2011 08:57, James Cameron wrote: >> Q3A65 removed this blanking, because it interfered with NANDblaster, >> which stores the received blocks of the .zd file in the SD card before >> fs-update begins. On extending the blanking to the whole devi

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-05-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On 5 May 2011 08:57, James Cameron wrote: > Q3A65 removed this blanking, because it interfered with NANDblaster, > which stores the received blocks of the .zd file in the SD card before > fs-update begins.  On extending the blanking to the whole device, the > .zd file being read by fs-update was a

Re: zhashfs: write first block last

2011-05-05 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:03:25PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > As for zhashfs, writing block 0 as all-zero was unnecessary as the > entire SD card gets blanked at the start of fs-update. (tweaked this > locally) Q3A65 removed this blanking, because it interfered with NANDblaster, which stores the