[JFFS2] Garbage collector says "Checked all inodes but still 0x5e3d0 bytes of unchecked space?"

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Fabrice,

Fabrice GIRARDOT fgirardot at besancon.parkeon.com Tue Apr 8 10:59:23 EDT 2008 wrote:
> Sometimes, after several unclean system resets, JFFS2's garbage
> collector outputs this message :
> "Checked all inodes but still 0x5e3d0 bytes of unchecked space?
>  kernel BUG at fs/jffs2/gc.c:139!"
[...]
> I don't know which exact version of jffs2 I'm using ; my gc.c
> file is version 1.144 on 21-dec-2004, which may look a bit old.
> Unfortunately, I can not switch to a newer kernel version.

Thats bad ...

> Does somebody has more information on this problem ?
> Is it a bug in jffs2 and/or its GC ? Is it fixed ?

try the following Patch:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd-cvs/2006-May/005354.html

I had the same Problem, and the above Patch fixed it.
But the "prefered" way should be, to update your kernel.

bye,
Heiko
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