Understanding jffs2 warning message

[Jean-Philippe Francois]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 15:06, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> Jean-Philippe Francois wrote:
> > I am doing some test on a JFFS2 file system.
> > It is installed on a Macronix Flash 29LV320, with top boot block.
> > The part are cfi probed, and it works (almost) fine.
> > 
> > I am doing some tar/untar loop [1]. Every six or seven loop, I have a
> > serie of 8 warning messages :
> > 
> > Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00001040)
> > Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00001044)
> You don't do unclean reboots? If not, this is wierd. This means that the 
> node on flash is somehow got corrupted.
Well, things happen, so may be there was not so clean reboot :)
What happens to corrupted nodes ? Are they somehow garbage collected ?
If I use a partition without the top block, these warning messages do
not appear.

JP Francois