On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:43:13PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, mark gross wrote: > > I need to get more details on this but I assume its a state where the > > meta data of the file system is committed to the emmc before lights go > > off such that when power is reapplied that the damage isn't too big. > I don't think you can guarantee that the metadata won't be damaged > without notifying the filesystem of the event (and making it react > appropriately). I guess with a journalling filesystem you'd hope that you can at any point write out what's in flight and have it be safe; if it's a non journalling filesystem of course all bets are off. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
