UBIFS reboots issue

Steve Iribarne siribarne at grid-net.com
Wed Dec 22 11:37:19 EST 2010


On 12/22/2010 06:36 AM, Boaz Ben-David wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have an embedded system using a Samsung 2GB MLC NAND and are using
> UBIFS as the file system on it.
> I have a question regarding UBIFS and hard reboots.
> After some work with the flash (doing reads and writes to it), some
> times one of our partitions would fail to mount.
> I suspected this has something to do with a reboot which happens during
> a write to the flash.
> In order to test this I created a simple script which copies a file from
> to the partition, syncs, then deletes it and does this repeatedly until
> a hard reboot occurs (using the watch dog to cause the boot).
> This process repeats itself until the partition fails to mount.
> When I performed the test mentioned above, after about 3-4 times the
> partition would fail.
> I am not sure if this behaviour is normal or not.
> Did someone encounter similiar behaviour?

What is the error when it tries to remount?



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