From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from the.earth.li ([193.201.200.66]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.62 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1GB3jG-0004oF-Ns for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:09:26 -0400 Received: from noodles by the.earth.li with local (Exim 4.50) id 1GB3eL-0001G5-Af for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:04:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:04:09 +0100 From: Jonathan McDowell To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4 jffs2 problems Message-ID: <20060810060409.GH27094@earth.li> References: <1154976111.17725.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809093419.GA14187@earth.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060809093419.GA14187@earth.li> List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:34:19AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:41:50PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > I previous reported problems with jffs2 on the Zaurus. I tested > > 2.6.18-rc4 and nothing has changed - I see the following when booting, > > both with filesystems that work with 2.6.17 and freshly reflashed > > systems: > > > > Linux version 2.6.18-rc4-.dev-snapshot-20060807 (richard@tim) (gcc version 3.4.3) #1 PREEMPT Mon Aug 7 17:47:07 BST 2006 > > CPU: XScale-PXA250 [69052904] revision 4 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f > > Machine: SHARP Poodle > > [...] > > Sharp SL series flash device: 800000@0 > > Using static partision definition > > Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash": > > 0x00120000-0x007f0000 : "Boot PROM Filesystem" > > NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0x76 (Toshiba NAND 64MiB 3,3V 8-bit) > > Scanning device for bad blocks > > Creating 3 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-nand": > > 0x00000000-0x00700000 : "System Area" > > 0x00700000-0x01d00000 : "Root Filesystem" > > 0x01d00000-0x04000000 : "Home Filesystem" > > [...] > > Empty flash@0x0054bc5c ends at 0x0054be00 > > VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing init memory: 100K > > JFFS2 error: (472) jffs2_get_inode_nodes: short read@0x074e84: 68 instead of 380. > > JFFS2 error: (472) jffs2_do_read_inode_internal: cannot read nodes for ino 153, returned error is -5 > > I'm seeing similar problems on the Amstrad Delta, both with a filesystem > that works fine under 2.6.16 and a completely clean fs. Like the Zaurus > this is a NAND device. A "git bisect" is flagging up 8593fbc68b0df1168995de76d1af38eb62fd6b62 as the problem commit: commit 8593fbc68b0df1168995de76d1af38eb62fd6b62 Author: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon May 29 03:26:58 2006 +0200 [MTD] Rework the out of band handling completely J. -- jid: noodles@jabber.earth.li 101 things you can't have too much of : 25 - email.