2011/1/11 Jesslyn Abdul Salam <jesslyn.sa...@aricent.com>:
>
> HI all,
>
>  I am using MeeGo 1.1 on our Moorestown based platform with kernel 2.6.35, we 
> are facing an issue with persistence of filesystem changes across power 
> cycles. Essentially, using ext3 on NAND, we see that any changes made to 
> existing files or creation of new files do not get flushed from the cache to 
> the NAND device during poweroff/shutdown.
>
> However, we’re working around this situation by using “barrier=1” option in 
> /etc/fstab and in this case, the barrier option ensures that all changes are 
> written through immediately to NAND. Since this happens at the cost of 
> performance and NAND device lifetime, this workaround is not desirable.
>
> Is this a bug in the Spectra drivers or an issue somewhere else?

Are you sure using ext3 on NAND (if you really mean NAND and not eMMC)
is wise? I would imagine something like ubifs would be saner as it's
suited for that kind of purpose.

BR
Carsten Munk
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