Re: [Yaffs] Question about sequence number

On Wednesday 06 April 2011 10:06:58 Charles Manning wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2011 09:41:44 HuangAlex wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a question about sequence number. I am wondering is there possible
> > that a file have two non-continuous sequence numbers without an object
> > header in the middle? The only way to meet this requirement I can think
> > is that I open and write two or more files at the same time. Is that
> > possible for yaffs2?Thank you all. Alex
>
> The sequence number is tied to the block and not to the file.
>
> There are at least ways to get non-continuous sequence numbers in a file:
> 1) Open two files for write and interleave writes.
> 2) Garbage collection writes.

3) Open one file for write, but make write patterns that cause cached data to
be written out later than other data.