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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: JH <jupiter.hce@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: A big issue of NAND fragmentation
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 09:02:06 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <131148461.92686.1567753326360.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA=hcWT0=ny6hxDgxZVTU6jbAYS80nizw3+PVVWzgW6poXuMwQ@mail.gmail.com>

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "JH" <jupiter.hce@gmail.com>
> An: "Richard Weinberger" <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
> CC: "linux-mtd" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 6. September 2019 08:03:55
> Betreff: Re: A big issue of NAND fragmentation
> 
> Yes, I use UBIFS, was your word "force" means "write" or did you
> allude there would be an alternative to avoid forcing UBIFS persist
> 250 bytes?
> 
> Waiting for out of space would be too risk, alternatively, I should
> have a UBIFS partition for the data storage, if it runs out of space,
> it won't impact the root file system.
> 

No, by force I mean forcing the filesystem to persist the data.
For example by using fsync(),fdatasync(), O_SYNC or a sync mounted
filesystem.
If you don't do this, data will be cached and can be packed
later upon write-back.

Thanks,
//richard

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-06  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-05  1:27 A big issue of NAND fragmentation JH
2019-09-05 11:54 ` Richard Weinberger
2019-09-06  6:03   ` JH
2019-09-06  7:02     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2019-09-06 11:18       ` JH

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