jffs2 2.4.18 kernel problem

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 01:20, lokesh kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a jffs2 partition on my mpc8xx board, running 2.4.18 kernel. I am
> using mtd snapshot of july 2002. The mtd partition size is 2MB.
>
> I enabled the mtd options in kernel, and then built an image for this
> partition using
>
> mkfs.jffs2 -e 0x20000 -b -r rootdir -o img
>
> and then I copy this image over this partition using u-boot or debugger. I
> can then boot the board and mount this partition on a mount point. Then I
> can cd to this partition and create a directory and copy a file to this
> directory. Now, I turn the power off and when I reboot, I can mount the
> file system and can see that the directory and file exist, but when I say
> "rm -fr file" or "rm -fr directory", it crashes the kernel saying "kernel
> access of bad area"
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Not much. You just use an ancient kernel and a pre ancient version of mtd

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Thomas
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