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On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:14 +0300, Igor Marnat wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> TG> Interrestingly enough are the node CRCs of some of the nodes intact, so
> TG> the corruption must have happened before writing to flash.
> 
> Loop "while (valid_ref)" (those that become infinite) in jffs2_get_inode_nodes also contains crc
> checking of nodes. They are checked in order of proceeding.
> 
> It doesn't complain about nodes' crc, so it seems
> that crc are ok. So I don't think that crc checking of chain of nodes
> helps here.

Can you please set JFFS2_DEBUG_LEVEL to 2 and log the output to a serial
console, bzip2 the result and upload it somewhere ?

Beware: it's slow and huge!

Thanks,

	tglx