Disappearing directories (jffs2 on nand flash)

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 05.08.2014 11:22, schrieb Christoph Mammitzsch:
> Am 03.08.2014 01:13, schrieb Richard Weinberger:
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Christoph Mammitzsch
>> <Christoph.Mammitzsch at symeo.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a little astonished at the amount of feedback I got for my
>>> bugreport. Apparently jffs2 losing entire directories is not as big a
>>> deal as I thought. Does that mean that JFFS2 is dead and I should use
>>> another flash filesystem instead, or did I simply post on the wrong
>>> mailing list?
>>
>> Is there any reason why you are not using UBIFS?
> 
> We introduced our first linux based product 2006, so UBIFS was not an
> option. Our second linux based product was designed in 2011. Back then
> UBIFS was still relatively new, and it seemed beneficial to keep
> differences between our two products minimal, so we kept using JFFS2.
> 
> Switching to UBIFS now means we would have to update and test quite a
> lot of scripts. And providing an update for existing stations would be
> even more problematic. Therefore I was hoping for a bugfix, so we could
> just deliver a new kernel image and be done with it.

I can understand your decisions.
TBH jffs2 is more of less abandoned, don't expect anyone to fix issues fast.

Is the issue you see a regression?
If you can find the first bad commit it might give someone a hint...
git bisect will help you.

Thanks,
//richard