JFFS2 Corruption.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Feb 24 11:51:02 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:17 +0000, Simon Haynes wrote:
> My problem only occurs across reboots. As the ramdisk is not persistent 
> storage how can I try and reproduce the problem. I have tried to reproduce 
> the problem on mtd devices without rebooting and I have not managed to to 
> this. 

The ramdisk isn't _involved_ as a form of storage. JFFS2 doesn't _use_
the block device for _anything_ except for looking at its minor number
to decide which actual MTD device to use.

Hack JFFS2 to always get_mtd_device number 2 and boot with
root=/dev/ram0


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dwmw2




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