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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@sigma-star.at>
To: Ryan Meulenkamp <Ryan.Meulenkamp@nedap.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: "dedekind1@gmail.com" <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Shrink UBIFS
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:28:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12883157.QBeLzUQkuA@blindfold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1507119835666.14660@nedap.com>

Am Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017, 14:23:56 CEST schrieb Ryan Meulenkamp:
> So, I stranded on the following: after performing the resize action,
> I get a nice strain of errors telling me that the node type is bad:
> (255 but expected <1 to 9>). I suspect this is because the block is
> erased but UBIFS did not expect it to be. Is this a problem with
> garbage collection of the index nodes? I don't understand how
> index nodes are garbage collected, and where they end up.

How can we know? :-)

But yes, seems like an UBIFS structure points to an erased region.

Thanks,
//richard

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-04 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 11:43 Shrink UBIFS Ryan Meulenkamp
2017-09-30 18:09 ` Richard Weinberger
2017-10-02  8:27   ` Artem Bityutskiy
     [not found]     ` <1507119835666.14660@nedap.com>
2017-10-04 12:28       ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
     [not found]         ` <1508397182265.19514@nedap.com>
2017-11-06 21:27           ` Richard Weinberger
2017-11-07  7:06             ` Artem Bityutskiy

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