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SubjectRe: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:48:39 +0400, "Artem B. Bityutskiy" said:

> Joern meant that if HDD starts a block write operation, it will
> accomplish it even if power-fail happens (probably there are some
> capacitors there). So, it is impossible, say, that HDD has written one
> half of a sector and has not written the other half.

Hard drives contain capacitors to prevent writing of runt sectors on
a powerfail? Didn't we go around this a while ago and decide it's mostly
urban legend, and that plenty of people have seen runt/bad sectors?
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