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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mmc: Multi-sector writes
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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