JFFS2: strange output

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jan 29 08:13:21 EST 2002


kenneth.johansson at etx.ericsson.se said:
> After 11 of the above I get the following message in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Dec 24 00:05:55 gonzo kernel: Waiting for chip to read, status = 4
> Dec 24 00:05:55 gonzo kernel: Waiting for chip to read, status = 7
> Dec 24 00:06:26 gonzo last message repeated 2841 times
> 
> By this point the copies are progressing painfully slowly. 

Those messages are harmless. They're removed in non-ancient versions of the 
code. The system slows down partly due to the garbage collection, and 
partly due to the spewing of these messages.

--
dwmw2






More information about the linux-mtd mailing list