autoresize causes insufficient reservation of PEBs for bad PEB handling

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Thu Jul 9 03:29:58 PDT 2015


Am 09.07.2015 um 12:23 schrieb Egli, Samuel:
> Hi Richard
> 
>>
>> There are more odds.
>>
>> I don't see a message like "[   90.757282] ubi0: volume 2
>> ("configuration") re-sized from 80 to 7948 LEBs"
>> in that log. So, re-size did not happen.
>>
>> Is this a pristine kernel or does it contain some vendor "tweaks"?
> 
> The issue didn't lie in linux kernel. We have in our ubi volume
> the uImage. So U-Boot needs to mount it and actually does
> the resize. In U-Boot version 2014.04 there is still a 
> older ubi driver that doesn't perform the resizing correctly.

Bah. ;-\

> With U-Boot v2015.04, however, the issue is resolved.

Thanks for letting me know.

> Thanks, for looking into this.

You're welcome!

Thanks,
//richard



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