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Subject: Re: Shrink UBIFS
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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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