Bad Magic

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jul 3 12:25:09 EDT 2001


harrisl at samsungcctvusa.com said:
>  Everything seems to work properly after boot but I am getting a bad
> magic message and JFFS2 scan right after JFFS2 loads but before the
> root filesystem is mounted.

The 'bad magic' message probably comes from cramfs, which is looking at the 
filesystem before JFFS2, and is rejecting it because the magic number which 
would mark it as a cramfs filesystem is absent.

It's harmless.


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