Patch to prevent jffs2 from make changes to other filesystems

[Bao C. Ha]

Hi David,

I am using kernel 2.4.10 and the older mtd stuff.
I have grabbed the newer mtd from cvs and can
confirm that we no longer have the problem.  The
"Cowardly refusing ..." message was triggered with
no damage to the cramfs.

I apologize for the panic.  We will be moving
forward to 2.4.12 to eliminate this type of
problems.

Regards.
Bao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org
> [mailto:linux-mtd-admin at lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of 
> David Woodhouse
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:55 PM
> To: Bao C. Ha
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Patch to prevent jffs2 from make changes to other
> filesystems 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> baoha at sensoria.com said:
> >  I would like to propose the following patch to temporarily fix the
> > problem of jffs2 making changes to other filesystems stored on MTD
> > partitions. 
> 
> You can't do it like that - you'll get crap on the filesystem 
> sometimes, 
> during normal operation. We have logic in there to abort the 
> mount at the 
> end, if no valid nodes were found, but other data were. Is 
> that failing or 
> are you using an obsolete version?
> 
> Line 147 of scan.c should read:
>  printk(KERN_NOTICE "Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on 
> filesystem with no valid JFFS2 nodes\n");
> 
> Does it? Why doesn't it get triggered?
> 
> --
> dwmw2
> 
> 
> 
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