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Subject: Re: free_list / free_size messages
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Just wondering if anyone had some insight on this error message.

-Brian

> Since moving from JFFS2 2.1 to 2.2, I have noticed klog messages I didn't
> see before.  It only seems to happen after a fresh flash when writing data
> to the romfs.  sometimes I get a few messages, but this time I only got
the
> one:
>
> Mar 10 12:07:25 klogd: Eep. Block 0x00120000 taken from free_list had
> free_size of 0x00000038!!
>
> It seems to recover, and I cannot find any corrupt files.  I see this
error
> also listed in the 2.1 source code, but never actually *got* the error
> before.
>
> Could someone explain what would cause it?  Sorry if this has been
discussed
> before, I didn't see anything on it when searching.