Re: JFFS2 on dataflash problem

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:00 -0500, Creech, Matthew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> makes the problem occur within 24 to 36 hours.  So something about
> copying one file over another one breaks things.  The "problem" here is
> that every I/O operation having to do with the JFFS2 partition blocks
> indefinitely.  For example, after running the test for 2 days, you can
> log into the device and try to "ls" the contents of /mnt/jffs2, and your
> shell will hang.  You can then login on another terminal, but you'll get
> another hang if you try to have any interaction with the JFFS2
> partition.  So everything else seems to function normally, but JFFS2
> just dies.  Also note that rebooting the device sometimes fixes things
> right up (JFFS2 mounts fine and works properly as if nothing happened at
> all), but sometimes the filesystem image is corrupt and refuses to
> mount.

Can you turn on JFFS2 debugging (level 1) in this case and log the debug
output over a serial console ?

tglx