JFFS2 Corruption.

[Simon Haynes]

On 25 Feb 2004 at 10:25, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:49 +0000, simon at baydel.com wrote:
> > As I do mount read only on shutdown I assume this is corruption ?
> 
> Maybe. I doubt it's _harmful_ but I am very interested.
> 

This has taken some time to produce. I have a 40Mb logfile which thankfully 
compresses to 4Mb. To generate the log I booted the system via the network with 
JFFS2 patched to use /dev/ram MAJOR, but no JFFS2 debug. I erased the SMC and 
made a clean JFFS2 filesystem. I then copied all of my root files. I mounted and 
umounted this a few times and each time I created and deleted a few files. I did not 
get one error.

I then rebooted using a similar kernel with CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DEBUG=1 and 
passed arguments "root=/dev/ram1 debug".

It took about 6 hours before I could log in. I then halted the system. On the first 
reboot, fortunately, I did get a CRC error but I cannot find where this was previously 
written. The node is 0x000303f0. 

I also observe the Empty flash XXXX ends at XXX. Which do not appear before the 
filesystem is used as rootfs and restarted.

Beyond that I don't really know what I am looking for in the log. I can mail it to you 
personally but as I said it's 4Mb compressed.

Cheers

Simon.
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