device major/minor attributes corrupt in jffs2

[Robin Gilks]

Robin Gilks wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Just trying to put a root filesystem into jffs2 and whilst I can mount 
> the filesystem and copy my /dev directory into it and it looks OK, when 
> I reboot the major/minor numbers have been added together into the minor 
> and the major is always 0
> 
> Anyone any ideas?
> 
> target mpc8xx cross compiled from i386 with gcc-3.3.1
> kernel 2.4.22
> mtd snapshot of 22-10-03
> busybox 1.00-pre3 utils
> uclibc 0.9.20 library
> 

More info - just unmount and remount and the device file attributes are 
  buggered - I assume that the cache is OK but the data written to flash 
is not :-((

Also, it looks like the major/minor numbers not added - can't work out 
exactly what is going on !!

/home # ./MAKEDEV
/home # ls -l /mnt/dev/mtd*
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,   0 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd0
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,   2 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd1
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,   4 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd2
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,   6 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd3
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,   8 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd4
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,  10 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd5
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,  12 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd6
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      90,  14 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd7
/home # umount /mnt
/home # mount /mnt
/home # ls -l /mnt/dev/mtd*
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  90 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd0
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  90 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd1
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  94 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd2
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  94 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd3
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  90 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd4
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  90 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd5
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  94 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd6
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       0,  94 Jan  1 17:26 /mnt/dev/mtd7


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Robin Gilks
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