Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:33:05 +0200 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 09:26 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > >>everything out first and then fall back on sector-by-sector to determine >>where an error occurs. This will only break if the problematic sector >>keeps shifting around, but at that point the card is probably toast >>anyway (if the thing keeps moving how can you bad block it?). >> >> > >Providing the sectors are not finally completed to higher levels until >they are written that works fine. >
I don't think there's any risk of that. What _might_ happen is that more data gets written to disk than is reported to the upper layers because of these buffering issues.
Rgds Pierre
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