UBIFS partition on NOR flash not mountable after power cut test

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 22:47:39 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:33 -0500, Mark Mason wrote:
> I have seen something similar in the last few months with Samsung
> K9WAG08U1B-PIB0 chips on a PowerPC 8260.  Sadly I can't be much help
> since I no longer have access to the hardware and don't have detailed
> notes anymore, but I did experience UBI/UBIFS corruption that
> prevented mounting after power cycle tests.  The frequency was
> approximately what you quote, and there was a high volume of writes to
> NAND.
> 
> Reformatting the NAND was not a big problem for us, so we went with a
> workaround and never had a chance to track down the actual problem
> before the product shipped.
> 
> Wish I could be more help.

Well, you could have reported it, I usually try to provide at least some
help...

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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