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From: Nils Faerber <nils.faerber@kernelconcepts.de>
To: Justin Clacherty <justin@redfish-group.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Again 2.6.18-RC6 XScale P30 issues
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:16:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4502B082.1090401@kernelconcepts.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4502A2AA.30701@redfish-group.com>

Justin Clacherty schrieb:
> Nils Faerber wrote:
>> So something is still wrong. At runtime the filesystem seems to be OK
>> but after a reboot it seems to be defect. Only way to recover is to
>> reflash the rootfs.
> Is the bootup process writing to flash before you unlock it?  syslogd
> might be a culprit...

Well, yes, there are some scripts that touch the fs, but that is IMHO
not the issue here. If it would be I would get the other "unable to
write to locked sector" error.
Instead the fs gets permanently corrupted, i.e. data is written and the
written data is wrong.

Last night I found that the JFFS2 write cache is configured. I will
disable that now and see if that helps - I have the impression that the
fs may contain half-baked stuff after a write. On the other hand, the
JFFS2 write cache is not marked as an experimental feature so I thought
I should be safe...

Well, that like poking with a long pole in the mist, I have to admit.
Very nasty to debug...
If I find something new I'll let you know ;)

But many thanks for your (all of you) help so far!

Cheers
  nils faerber

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-08 15:27 Again 2.6.18-RC6 XScale P30 issues Nils Faerber
2006-09-09 11:16 ` Justin Clacherty
2006-09-09 12:16   ` Nils Faerber [this message]
2006-09-09 14:10     ` Josh Boyer
2006-09-09 22:00     ` Justin Clacherty

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