----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Not actually, I'm afraid. I don't see how overwriting a file is > relevant here. Definitely, I don't do power cut during "dd if=test2 > of=test0 conv=notrunc". At the moment of power cut-off, test2 has been > created from scratch and has some data written to it, with more writes in > progress. I'm sorry, but I'm really confused now. Please share your real test case, with real results and what you expect. No guesswork, no simplified pseudo code. :-) Otherwise we have little chance to sort this out. Also read what Steve wrote. Thanks, //richard ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/