From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from extern.plris.com ([212.199.10.23] helo=plris.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1WeKue-0005RB-KP for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:58:17 +0000 Received: from leonp.plris.com (leonp.plris.com [192.168.50.57]) by plris.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63407870001 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:57:42 +0300 (IDT) From: Leon Pollak To: MTD Maling List Subject: Problem with JFFS2 garbage collector Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:57:42 +0300 Message-ID: <2850202.tnNSLEu5dC@leonp.plris.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I plead and beg the community for ANY answer! As there was an interest in the past (2 months), I am in doubts if it is not interesting a person today! Please, even if there is no interest - let me know! ============================================================================= Hello to all. About a month ago I already wrote here about the problem I have (see below). At that time 3-4 of list members reacted saying this is the bug and there were some suggestions for testing/work-arounding it. I kindly ask people to return to this issue and I am ready to debug the possible solutions/work-arounds.... ------------------------------------------- The following scenario produces a lot of errors -5 or crashes in the following case: After initial flash partition burn from within U-Boot, JFFS2 partition is mounted RO at fstab, flashes are write protected by HW. On the first boot I: - take HW flash write protect off; - remount as RW; - make a small update to a small file; - sync; - remount as RO; - HW write protect ON. At this moment I receive a lot of error -5 messages and sometimes even crash dumps. This problem repeats at each sequential boot 5-8 times with each time less number of -5 errors till it finally is gone. I will be very thankful to you for any tip what can be done. Many thanks ahead and best regards -- Leon