jffs_erasable_size: offset = 0x0034b000

Simon Kagstrom simonk at axis.com
Mon Jul 10 03:38:32 EDT 2000


On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 
> scote1 at Matrox.COM said:
> > I don't think JFFS is ready to be included in the kernel.  It hasn't
> > been tested a lot (the 2.2 and 2.4 ports) and I'm sure we'll find many
> > bugs (the invalidate_inode_pages bug is a good example of a huge bug
> > that we almost missed).  Just today, I untarred the source code of a
> > program on a JFFS partition, tried to compile it and got a read error
> > from jffs_readpage().  
> 
> It wasn't really my intention to send it in - it was in the tarball I sent 
> to Linus out of habit because I've been doing it every time I've released 
> one for some time - I'm amazed that he actually took it.
> 
> But now it's in, it does seem to have attracted some attention, and with it 
> at least one bug fix so far - which can only really be a good thing. 

What bug fix is that?
 
// Simon Kågström



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