OOPS at mount

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Thu Apr 26 09:13:04 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 14:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:00 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > No, its gone. Is yours still there?
> 
> Nope. I think the offending node got marked obsolete after we fixed the
> kernel not to crash when it saw it.

Yes, thats what I am thinking too. I can restore to the image I sent you
and see if the errors return. Will that help in any way?

> 
> I strongly suspect that the root cause here is the fact that you turned
> SUMMARY off -- in particular the way that affected the setting of
> jffs2_can_mark_obsolete().
> 
> That will have meant that _some_ nodes were actually marked obsolete on
> the medium, while other nodes weren't. I'm trying to construct a
> detailed scenario in which that leads to the error we saw, so I can
> convince myself 100% that this was the problem....

Thanks,

    Jocke




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