problem of mounting jffs

problem of mounting jffs

[yanhy]

Hi david!

I'v managed to compile my kernel with mtd and jffs support successfully,but 
I can't delete or edit files or build directories on jffs partitions,why?

i created a jffs image including some directories(/dev,/bin,/etc,etc) and tried to
mount jffs in following steps:

# mkfs.jffs -d /jffstuff -a big -o jffs.img (on the host)
/> eraseall /dev/mtd3 (on the target)
/> cat /proc/mtd      (on the target)

   dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00038000 "bootloader"
mtd1: 00020000 00038000 "user"
mtd2: 000c0000 00040000 "kernel"
mtd3: 00100000 00040000 "jffs"

/> cp jffs.img /dev/mtd3 (or dd if=jffs.img /dev/mtd3 bs=256k
 ........
 MTD_write
 MTD_write
 .........
 MTD_write
 39+1 records in
 M9+1 records out
 
/> modprobe jffs
  Waiting for child 26
  Using /lib/modules/2.4.17-uc0/kernel/fs/jffs/jffs.o
  JFFS version 1.0, (C) 1999, 2000  Axis Communications AB
  kmem_create: Forcing size word alignment - jffs_node  
  
/> mount -t jffs /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt/jffs
JFFS: Failed to build tree.
JFFS: Failed to mount device 1f:03.
mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock3 on /mnt/jffs failed: Invalid argument
pid 28: failed 256

Then i created another jffs.img which only contained two files:init and inetd,then
tried
above steps again.
/> mount -t jffs /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt/jffs
/> mount
/dev/root on / type romfs (ro)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/ram0 on /var type ext2 (rw)
/dev/mtdblock3 on /var/jffs type jffs (rw)

/> ls -l /mnt/jffs
-rwxrwxrwx    1 0        0           11336 init
-rwxrwxrwx    1 0        0           21448 inetd

/> /proc/fs/jffs/1f:03> cat info
partition size:     00100000 (1048576)
sector size:        00040000 (262144)
used size:          000080D0 (32976)
dirty size:         00000000 (0)
free size:          000F7F30 (1015600)

/> /proc/fs/jffs/1f:03> cat layout
00000000 0000003C ino=00000001, ver=00000001
0000003C 00002C88 ino=00000002, ver=00000001
00002CC4 0000540C ino=00000003, ver=00000001
000080D0 000F7F30 free 

it seems that  jffs have been successfully mounted. 

but when i tried to delete a file:
/> /mnt/jffs/rm init
   rm: unable to remove `init': I/O error

if i tried to edit the file(vi init) ,error was showed as" init is a readonly
file".
then i tried to change the mode by "chmod 0777 init",however, an error came as"
" init: No space left on device"

What's problem?Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!
Best Wishes
Yean


ps:
basic information:
     Platform:M5272C3
     Host:redhat 7.1
     romfs with mtd support was selected, and jffs was selected as modules.

Re: problem of mounting jffs

[David Woodhouse]

yanhy@tsinghua.org.cn said:
>  I'v managed to compile my kernel with mtd and jffs support
> successfully,but  I can't delete or edit files or build directories on
> jffs partitions,why?

Is there any particular reason you're using JFFS instead of JFFS2?

Not that I expect you to have this problem with JFFS -- I expect it's a 
hardware/driver problem. But it would be better if you could debug that 
with JFFS2.

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dwmw2