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Subject: Re: JFFS2 doesn't detect end of space on flash device instead breaks
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Sreecharan Sivadevuni wrote:
 > Hello,
 >       The JFFS2 on my flash doesnot report back to me
 > end of space on my flash, instead I get a kernel oops
 > message and sometimes the kernel hangs. This is when I
 > am trying to copy a file which is of larger size than
 > there is space on device.
Hmm, looks like a bug.

Could you please enable JFFS2 debugging and send the output?
Which kernel? Which JFFS2? Try the latest please.

Thanks.

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Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.