Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> writes:

> I had a look at the paste and it would seem that yaffs does not
> think itself dirty in the second sync.
>
> yaffs has a small internal cache and it seems that the writes in the
> cache are not getting flushed.
>
> Here's something to try to see if this changes anything:
>
> touch ext2 file
> sync
>
> touch yaffs file
> sync
>
> touching the yaffs file should explicitly dirty yaffs.

That appears to work.

Do you have an explanation for why it seems to keep files with
content, but not the empty ones?


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