Need to recover from corruption

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 12:23:53 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 14:39 -0700, Steve Iribarne wrote:
> On 10/16/2011 04:43 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Iribarne wrote:
> >> I work on a system where we need to be as 100% uptime as possible.  The
> >> other day we had an issue here where one of our applications was
> >> crashing while a write to one of the partitions was happening.
> >>
> >> I then turned on UBIFS debugging in u-boot and I have a bunch of info
> >> but I have no idea what is going on.
> > Well, judging from the log UBIFS went nuts for some reason (negative
> > free space). I've never seen this before.
> >
> > Could you please write some more information about your system, flash,
> > kernel version, etc. Please, follow these instructions:
> > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_how_send_bugreport
> 
> I'm working on getting this info for you now.

Could you please also verify your flash with the mtd tests. The symptoms
do not look like you have driver-level issues, but this is a good idea
to do anyway. You can find the tests in the kernel and some info at the
MTD web page.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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