jffs2_scan_eraseblock() - errors

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Wed Jul 31 06:34:19 EDT 2002


On Tue, 30 July 2002 23:21:51 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It's actually possible to avoid the cosmetic annoyance by marking the node 
> as obsolete, so we don't check the CRC and hence don't bitch about it 
> failing. Older versions of JFFS2 did that, as does the current version in 
> 2.4.19-rc3. But it's harmless and expected behaviour.

How exactly is this done? On the next mount after the failed write? By
toggling bits in the status word of the node header?

If so, this will not work with any of the shiny STMicro chips with
hardware ECC, so I would have to tackle that one too, once we merge.

Jörn

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