From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp14.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.23.69]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DurxN-0000jD-Ss for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:16:28 -0400 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1404.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C12C57000048 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:16:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Philippe Francois To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" In-Reply-To: <42DCFABE.7040002@yandex.ru> References: <1121776529.2565.34.camel@fedorabox> <42DCFABE.7040002@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1121778978.2565.43.camel@fedorabox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:16:18 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Understanding jffs2 warning message Reply-To: jp.francois@cynove.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 15:06, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > Jean-Philippe Francois wrote: > > I am doing some test on a JFFS2 file system. > > It is installed on a Macronix Flash 29LV320, with top boot block. > > The part are cfi probed, and it works (almost) fine. > > > > I am doing some tar/untar loop [1]. Every six or seven loop, I have a > > serie of 8 warning messages : > > > > Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00001040) > > Node totlen on flash (0xffffffff) != totlen in node ref (0x00001044) > You don't do unclean reboots? If not, this is wierd. This means that the > node on flash is somehow got corrupted. Well, things happen, so may be there was not so clean reboot :) What happens to corrupted nodes ? Are they somehow garbage collected ? If I use a partition without the top block, these warning messages do not appear. JP Francois