UBIFS reboots issue

[Boaz Ben-David]

I would very much want to try yaffs2. I cloned the git repo and patched my kernel using the script provided
with the yaffs code. The kernel compiled with no errors but after I mounted a yaffs partition I could not create any new files on it.
Each time I try to create a file on the partition I get "cannot allocate memory",,,
I haven't had much time to investigate this so if anyone has any idea why this is happening, this is also a very good direction for me to go with (using yaffs).
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From: ZHOU Zhongjun [Zhongjun.Zhou at alcatel-sbell.com.cn]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 5:23 AM
To: Boaz Ben-David; linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
Subject: RE: UBIFS reboots issue

Why do you not to use YAFFS2 for NAND flash?  It seems that Yaffs2 is more popularity.


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From: linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Boaz Ben-David
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:52 PM
To: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: UBIFS reboots issue

I am using kernel 2.6.31 for iMX35 and I'm not sure what version of UBIFS is patched in there.
What do I need to do in order to patch to the latest version?
Is is enough to clone UBIFS 2.6.31 and copy over the fs/ubifs and mtd/ubi directories or are there any other directories I need to take into account?

Thanks,

Boaz.

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 22:20 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 16:36 +0200, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have an embedded system using a Samsung 2GB MLC NAND and are
> > using UBIFS as the file system on it.
> > I have a question regarding UBIFS and hard reboots.
> > After some work with the flash (doing reads and writes to it), some
> > times one of our partitions would fail to mount.
> > I suspected this has something to do with a reboot which happens
> > during a write to the flash.
> > In order to test this I created a simple script which copies a file
> > from to the partition, syncs, then deletes it and does this
> > repeatedly until a hard reboot occurs (using the watch dog to cause the boot).
> > This process repeats itself until the partition fails to mount.
> > When I performed the test mentioned above, after about 3-4 times the
> > partition would fail.
> > I am not sure if this behaviour is normal or not.
> > Did someone encounter similiar behaviour?
>
> Just curious, did you see this:
>
> http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_ubifs_mlc
>
> I do not think you can just use UBI/UBIFS on MLC as is, you'd need to
> make sure MLC-specific behavior is handled properly.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
>

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