Please Help, problem mounting jffs2

[Sid Gluckman]

I am kind of a newbie to the jffs2 thing but are you sure that it is just
"sitting" there?  I found that when a jffs2 system is mounted for the first
time with something in the filesystem it goes through some kind of
cataloging function where I'm guessing it is characterizing the device for
bad flash bytes?  Anyways, if you do a 'df' in another shell while it is
sitting there you will see that the device is mounted and that the used
space first slowly cycles to fully used then slowly back down to the correct
used space.  I'm sure someone else could enlighten us both as to what it is
actually doing during this time.  Once it completes this cycle everything is
fine and it doesn't do it on subsequent mounts.  Depending on the flash size
this could take quite a while.

Hope this helps.

Sid

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org
[mailto:linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On Behalf Of Frank R
Callaghan
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:52 AM
To: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Please Help, problem mounting jffs2


Hi All,

I have a problem with mounting my new mtd/jffs2 system
after lots of experiment I have found the after doing
'eraseall /dev/mtd0' I can 'mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock0 /mnt/flash'
with no problem :) but if I umount it and try to re-mount it
will sit there forever !
If I cp a jffs2.img to the device the mount will also lockup
If I erase -> mount I can create files df with no problems,

It seem like the mount does not like mounting with anything
in the filesystem !

What infomation should I gather to find out whats gonig on here ?

Any help greatly appreciated,

TIA,
        Frank.







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