UBIFS fails & crashes on SheevaPlug

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 07:07:30 EDT 2009


On 07/24/2009 04:12 PM, Erno Kuusela wrote:
> Also, ubiformat mentioned 1400+ "bad" eraseblocks, what should I make of
> that? Is it really failed flash cells, just some blocks reserved for
> u-boot and stuff, or blocks traumatized from my earlier misadventures
> with ubiformat parameters?

Oh, I've just got it. When ubiformat prints:

ubiformat: bad eraseblocks: 1400

this means that you have 1 eraseblock, and it is eraseblock number 1400.
Nothing to worry about. But it is confusing, so I'll change this to

ubiformat: bad eraseblock numbers: A, B, C

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)



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