Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:46:33 -0400 |
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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? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |