problem with 2k page NAND with squashfs

[Adams Richard-W36112]

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:15:29 -0500
> "Adams Richard-W36112" <rgadams at motorola.com> wrote:
> 
> >  I have an arm-based embedded system running a 2.6.10 kernel. I'm 
> > using a squashfs file system (read only) on the Flash device. The 
> > system was working fine with a 512 byte page Flash part. I started 
> > having problems when I upgraded to a 2048 byte page Flash 
> part. When I 
> > mount the squash file system, it can successfully find the super 
> > block, but squashfs fails (unable to read inode [5ff3:120]) when it 
> > try's to finish the mount. My suspicions are that with the older 
> > kernel (2.6.10) it may not fully support the larger page 
> devices. Is 
> > there an achieve of patches that are applicable for a 
> 2.6.10 kernel? I 
> > tried to look through the mailing list archive, but without 
> a search 
> > tool and not knowing what month I'm looking for the task 
> became tedious.
> 
> http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/source.html#kernelversions
> 
> 2.6.10 pre-dates git even, so you are likely stuck doing 
> diffs from kernel tarballs.
> 
> josh
> 

Before I went through the effort I wanted to check with the list to see
if anyone knows that there is or isn't an issue with the 2k NAND page
size on this vintage kernel.