No space left on almost empty JFFS2 filesystem

Paul van Gool paul.vangool at rinconnetworks.com
Wed Jun 25 15:44:21 EDT 2003


Jörn and Jasmine,

thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a try.

Paul

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:49:33PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 25 June 2003 19:29:54 +0100, Jasmine Strong wrote:
> > On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 19:24 Europe/London, Paul van Gool wrote:
> > 
> > >Creating am image with '-e 0x10000' and running with it, results in:
> > >[snip]
> > 
> > Did you erase the flash properly?  It looks like it's got messed up 
> > somehow.
> > 
> > Re- the other point.  You need, afaik, to have at least five empty 
> > erase blocks
> > before jffs2 will try to write to the flash.  This is, yes, half a 
> > mibibit.
> > 
> > Unless this has changed, Jörn?
> 
> No, it hasn't.  The changes were started, but never finished.
> 
> Jörn
> 
> -- 
> With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, 
> I am limited only by my knowledge.
> -- Peter J. Schoenster

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