Re: UBIFS: file data corruption during the power cut-off test

[Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:10 AM Sergei Poselenov <sposelenov@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have an embedded system based on i.MX 6ULL, with the root filesystem deployed on a UBI volume built on top of the SLC NAND device. The volume is mounted as "rw,sync,relatime".
>
> We are doing the following test:
>
>    - Copy the same file (/bin/busybox) to a different file names, in a sequence.
>
>    - Power is cut off during the copy sequence.
>
>    - After reboot, UBI mounts OK, and we see a number of valid copies of /bin/busybox (md5sum matches), and the last file with the short length (partially written), as expected.
>
> The question is: should we expect the last partially-written file to have the valid data of the original? We observe that quite often, the last 512 or so bytes in the short file doesn't match the original.

Hm, I don't fully understand your question.
If you copy files and this is interrupted, the copy is not complete
and therefore contents are missing.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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