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Subject: Child dir appears to be a hard link
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Hi.
I'm getting some strange errors.
Has anyone seen these, or could they comment on it?

...
drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse
driver
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Node at 0x001185f8 {0x1985, 0xe001,
0x0000002c) has invalid CRC 0xffffffff (calculated 0xe0f1565f)
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at
0x001185fc: 0x002c instead
jffs2_scan_inode_node(): CRC failed on node at 0x002079e0: Read
0xffffffff, calculated 0x0c51258b
Empty flash at 0x00207a2c ends at 0x00207c00
jffs2_scan_dirent_node(): Node CRC failed on node at 0x0022fde0:
Read 0xffffffff, calculated 0x06fef39c
jffs2_scan_dirent_node(): Node CRC failed on node at 0x0054a5f0:
Read 0xffffffff, calculated 0x9de56616
Empty flash at 0x0054a61c ends at 0x0054a800
Child dir "bin" (ino #4) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "etc" (ino #84) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "lib" (ino #90) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "mnt" (ino #112) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "usr" (ino #135) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "proc" (ino #118) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "sbin" (ino #120) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "root" (ino #119) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "devfs" (ino #83) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard link
Child dir "lost+found" (ino #3) of dir ino #2 appears to be a hard
link
Inode #2 was a directory with children - removing those too...
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 60K
init started:  BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.07.23-21:50+0000)
multi-call binary

...


I searched the archives, and they refer to using different versions
of mkfs.jffs2.  I don't use this utility, I just mount the
partition and copy the files to it directly.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks a bunch,
Mike