ubifs error at boot "bad node type"

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Wed Jul 16 05:32:31 PDT 2014


Am 16.07.2014 14:26, schrieb Richard Genoud:
> 2014-07-16 14:02 GMT+02:00 Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger at gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 12:10 +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
>>>> ubiattach is ok:
>>>> # ubiattach -m 3
>>>> [   50.164062] UBI: default fastmap pool size: 95
>>>> [   50.164062] UBI: default fastmap WL pool size: 25
>>>
>>> I do not know why this happened, I never saw reports like this before.
>>> Most probably this is because of fastmap. I did not hear any report that
>>> it was extensively verified WRT power cuts, and my theory is that there
>>> is a bug in fastmap which causes this, and this may be related to power
>>> cuts. I do not have proves, but suggest you to dig in this direction.
>>> E.g., setup power-cut testing.
>>
>> The logs don't show the "attached by fastmap" message. So UBI got
>> attached by scanning.
>> So, fastmap support is here but not used.
>>
>> Only the fastmap pools are used.
> 
> Well, actually, fastmap is used on this volume when I boot from NAND.
> (and I must say, It's fast !)
> Just this time, as I boot from nfsroot, or from a unclean state,
> fastmap didn't attached UBI.
> I'll check if it's still operational.

Okay, this explains your logs.
I fear you don't have the original image anymore?
Just thinking of how to understand/analyze this issue... :-\

Thanks,
//richard



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