oobavail issues

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Mar 31 06:52:46 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 20:18 -0500, Joshua Wise wrote:
> We found that making our oobfree match up with oobavail seemed to do the 
> trick for avoiding this, and make JFFS2 work, to boot! Here's what we did:
>
> I suspect that oobavail should be summing oobfree instead of doing that 
> arithmetic. Or is there something I'm not seeing?

In general you're right. oobavail should be derived from oobfree, but in
case of JFFS2 this does not matter at all.

Which problem went away with your changes ?

tglx






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