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Subject: inftl broken?
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I've been going throught the mailing lists and haven't been able to come to=
 a=20
clear conclusion as to the functionality of inftl. I see a lot of questions=
,=20
but I have yet to find a conclusive answer.

When I attempt to use it, it appears to be broken.

I have build a vanilla 2.6.14.7 kernel, installed it on a debian system, an=
d=20
installed mtd-tools.

=46rom the target I:
modprobe inftl
modprobe diskonchip

This correctly detects the diskon chip and creates a partition inftla

I create a secondary partition inftla1 with fdisk.
then:
mke2fs /dev/inftla1
mount /dev/inftla1 /mnt
cd /mnt
touch test
cd /
umount /mnt

I then reboot the system

modprobe inftl
modprobe diskonchip
mount /dev/inftla1 /mnt

and my test file is gone.

I have also attempted to use 2.6.18. It also fails, but differently.
It completely replaces the bad block chain every time the diskonchip driver=
=20
mounts.

Now, I'm flexible in how this is to be used, but I need a working system.

My question is:
***********Is anyone using inftl successfully in any way?*************

Please include details, i.e. filesystem, kernel, utils, etc...
If it' s proprietary and you can't share, then at least say "yes".

If this doesn't work under any circumstances, please consider removing it f=
rom=20
the kernel, or at least officially calling it broken.

I asked this same question on the IRC last night and no-one seemed to know.

NZG