[PATCH][JFFS2] Fix garbage collector block search

Alexander Belyakov abelyako at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 24 03:17:55 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:30 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:25 +0400, Alexander Belyakov wrote:
>  >
>  > Continuously running script from my previous message, I've just
>  > noticed that space leak does exist. Available space (reported by df)
>  > decreases with each iteration. I've not investigated this in details
>  > yet, but it seems the behavior is the same for XATTR support enabled
>  > and disabled.
>
>  I wouldn't worry too much about what jffs2_statfs() says. We really do
>  make crap up there :)
>

Hm... This script was just the easiest way to reproduce gc bug, but
not the only. Are you sure this leak won't appear in other sane cases?

-a



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