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SubjectRe: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash
On Thu, 22 September 2005 13:34:30 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
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> Noone bothered defining it, but most everyone is happy about it being
> as it is. Non-journalling filesystems would have severe corruption on
> unclean umounts. lost+found would fill up much faster than people are
> used to, if 4-6 was common for hard disks.

Worse, actually. Corruption will also happen for file data, which may
pass fsck just fine. Your data is gone and noone told you about it.
;)

Jörn

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