On Monday 09 January 2006 00:49, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Chun Kit Edwin Lau <edwin@micronedge.com> wrote:
> > I have two questions. First, I lost all the files when I umount
> > a yaffs2 partition. I read somewhere in this mailing list that it was an
> > known issue from mtd. May I know if there is a quick fix for it? Second,
> > I tried to dd a file containing all zeros of ~155MB to the yaffs2
> > partition.
>
> Can we /please/ just get the MTD layer to export some kind of version
> dependency that YAFFS can use to determine whether it will work
> against a particular release? It would be simple to then have a
> blacklist of known-bad MTDs or the reverse (which would be better).
>
The new interface should fix this. I was hoping to see it by now, but it
should be there real soon now. Anyway it's getting some good discussion on
the mtd list too.
-- CHarles
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