[PATCH][JFFS2] Fix garbage collector block search

Alexander Belyakov abelyako at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 24 03:48:04 EDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:17 +0400, Alexander Belyakov wrote:
>  > Hm... This script was just the easiest way to reproduce gc bug, but
>  > not the only. Are you sure this leak won't appear in other sane cases?
>
>  If the only other evidence of a leak is that jffs2_statfs() reports
>  fluctuating values, then I'm no more likely to take it seriously than if
>  you tell me "a pixie told me" :)
>

Values are not fluctuating. After about 40 iterations I have no space
to write 2Mbytes file on 4MiB volume constantly getting "No space left
on device" until remount.

It might be not a real leak, but anyway pixie doesn't feel this is a
correct behavior. :)



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