Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] UBIFS: fix recovery on CFI NOR

Anatolij Gustschin
2011-03-07T13:05:55Z

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:39:50 +0200
Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 15:17 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > here is a better patch for recovery fix. Comparing to the previous
> > patch-set now we make sure we keep write-buffer offset aligned to
> > @c->max_write_size (64 in case of CFI NOR) as much as possible.
> >
> > Also, I've merged the "Add comments" patch with the patch which adds
> > the code.
> >
> > You can find these patches also in the UBIFS git tree, 'cfi-nor-fix-v2'
> > branch:
> > git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6.git cfi-nor-fix-v2
> >
> > Please, test. These patches may break NAND setups as well, so anyone
> > who is interested in having stable UBIFS in the next release, please,
> > also test.
>
> Anatolij,
>
> did these patches fix your issues. I know you found another one related
> to unstable bits, but it is a separate issue. I need to make a decision
> whether my patches go upstream the next merge window or they should
> wait.
>
> I have v3 of the patches, but they are not very different from v2. I
> will send them out as well.

Hi Artem,

Yes, together with both patches from
"[PATCH 0/2] Further fixes for UBIFS recovery on CFI NOR" series
these patches fix UBIFS recovery issues on our NOR flash. Remaining
issue seems to be CRC-Error due to unstable bits in UBIFS data node.

Best regards,
Anatolij