RE: Problem: 51MB partition max size on jffs2

Dave Ellis
2002-12-06T20:29:34Z

Ken Offer wrote:
> Ok, I switched back to the latest CVS and tried to mount the
> partition.
> No luck, even with a 32MB partition. I get:
>
> mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt/jffs
> mount: /dev/mtdblock1 is not a valid block device
>
> I have tried the latest CVS with both the "vmalloc c->blocks" change
> and without. In both cases mount fails the same way. I turned up
> debugging all the way for jffs2 and mtd but no messages were
> printed to
> /var/log/messages. Guess I need to scour the jffs2 code and add some
> more printks...

The latest CVS (05-Dec-2002) is working for me with kmalloc()
for c->blocks. 128MB Nand flash, 8MB Nor Flash and slram running
on battery-backed RAM all work. I have only tried copying some
files to them, no extensive testing, but they all mount OK. This
is with PPC 2.4.18.

Dave