No space left on almost empty JFFS2 filesystem

[Paul van Gool]

Creating am image with '-e 0x10000' and running with it, results in:

# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock4 /mnt/jffs                                       
mtdblock_open                                                                   
ok                                                                              
jffs2_scan_empty(): Empty block at 0x000017ac ends at 0x00010000 (with 0x200319y
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00010000, not first node in block (0x00000000)      
jffs2_scan_empty(): Empty block at 0x0002000c ends at 0x00030000 (with 0x200319y
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00030000, not first node in block (0x00020000)      
jffs2_scan_empty(): Empty block at 0x0004000c ends at 0x00050000 (with 0x200319y
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00050000, not first node in block (0x00040000)      
jffs2_scan_empty(): Empty block at 0x0006000c ends at 0x00070000 (with 0x200319y
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00070000, not first node in block (0x00060000)      
jffs2: No clean _or_ dirty blocks to GC from! Where are they all?               
jffs2: Couldn't find erase block to garbage collect!                            
jffs2: No clean _or_ dirty blocks to GC from! Where are they all?               
jffs2: Couldn't find erase block to garbage collect!                            
jffs2: No clean _or_ dirty blocks to GC from! Where are they all?               
jffs2: Couldn't find erase block to garbage collect!
...

Paul

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:20:20AM -0700, Paul van Gool wrote:
> So I tried:
> 
> mkfs.jffs2 --pad=0x80000 --little-endian --squash -e 0x20000 -d /home/vangool/jffs -o jffs.img
> 
> thinking that that would give me 3 erase blocks but I still get the
> same error. Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:58:46AM -0700, Paul van Gool wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:52:34PM +0100, Jasmine Strong wrote:
> > > JFFS2 filesystems require a certain number of erase blocks reserved for
> > > garbage collection before you can write anything to them.
> > I see. 1 Block will indeed never be enough then. Shows my ignorance ;-).
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Paul 
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> Paul van Gool                                               Rincon Networks
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Paul van Gool                                               Rincon Networks
paul.vangool at rinconnetworks.com                              (805)-705-1442