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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] UBI: Fastmap: Care about the protection queue
Am 09.01.2015 um 22:23 schrieb Ezequiel Garcia:
> On 11/24/2014 10:20 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Fastmap can miss a PEB if it is in the protection queue
>> and not jet in the used tree.
>
> s/jet/yet
>
>> Treat every protected PEB as used.
>>
>
> I'm wondering if we can have a detailed description of the issues this
> commit fixes (if any?). In other words, what's the result of *not*
> having the patch?

Without this patch fastmap can miss one PEB.
As consequence of this during attach the fastmap self-check
will detect this inconsistency and will fall back to a full scan.
If you try to attach using a custom fastmap implementation (found in
bootloaders) which do often not have sophisticated self-checks you'll
face a serious data corruption or if you're lucky UBI will crash.

Now clearer? :-)

Thanks,
//richard


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