Re: UBIFS on kernel 2.6.24?

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:40 +0100, David Jander wrote:
> Back on topic:
> I have repeated the nand-tests on another board, and they ran just fine, 
> repeating for quite a while without any error, so I guess that proves that the 
> hardware and nand-driver are working reasonably well. OTOH, The two failed 
> systems, also were running for several months with very heavy flash-disk I/O 
> (not as much as to wear it out though, there's still roughly 40% free space on 
> the UBI volume). It has gone through installing ubuntu on it, and building 
> several debian packages from source, etc... all apparently without problems, 
> until one day 'ls -l /etc/' just failed.
> I will try to pull from ubifs-v2.6.24.git, but I'd like to know your opinion 
> on what the chances are that this update will fix the problem or bug that 
> caused this corruption?

I cannot tell for sure, it may.

What I can say for sure is that I personally is not very interested in
solving problems for too old UBIFS code-base. Well, problems I can
reproduce here, in my setup, are OK, but subtle problems which I cannot
reproduce here are not OK - I really want to be sure UBI/UBIFS are
up-to-date and this is not something we already fixed.

BTW, from now on 2.6.24 back-port support is dropped. But it is
up-to-date _now_ :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)