From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fmr17.intel.com ([134.134.136.16] helo=orsfmr002.jf.intel.com) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1EkcwG-00047W-NO for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:45:10 -0500 From: "zhao, forrest" To: Nikhil In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:39:24 +0800 Message-Id: <1134113964.4740.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: mtd_debug List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:01 +0530, Nikhil wrote: > Hi all, > > i just wanted to know if there is any utility to see how the JFFS2 > filesystem is written on the flash. Places where inode structures are > stored when a new file is created or if a file has been modified where > actually on the flash this part is written is a new inode created or the > same inode is re-written to some another location along with the data > node. > > i tried to view the flash layout using the "mtd-debug read" utility and i > can view part of the data nodes but i am not able to view what exactly is > written as the metadata of the file. Is there any way of getting the > information of the metadata stored on the flash. > > thanks in advance > Not sure if jffs2dump can meet your requirement...... It can dump the meta data of each node on the flash. Thanks, Forrest