From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1JjTNP-0001nJ-Hm for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:01:44 +0000 Message-ID: <47FC4A91.8010104@denx.de> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:48:17 +0200 From: Heiko Schocher MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [JFFS2] Garbage collector says "Checked all inodes but still 0x5e3d0 bytes of unchecked space?" References: <47FB884B.9050301@besancon.parkeon.com> In-Reply-To: <47FB884B.9050301@besancon.parkeon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: hs@denx.de List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello Fabrice, Fabrice GIRARDOT fgirardot at besancon.parkeon.com Tue Apr 8 10:59:23 EDT 2008 wrote: > Sometimes, after several unclean system resets, JFFS2's garbage > collector outputs this message : > "Checked all inodes but still 0x5e3d0 bytes of unchecked space? > kernel BUG at fs/jffs2/gc.c:139!" [...] > I don't know which exact version of jffs2 I'm using ; my gc.c > file is version 1.144 on 21-dec-2004, which may look a bit old. > Unfortunately, I can not switch to a newer kernel version. Thats bad ... > Does somebody has more information on this problem ? > Is it a bug in jffs2 and/or its GC ? Is it fixed ? try the following Patch: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd-cvs/2006-May/005354.html I had the same Problem, and the above Patch fixed it. But the "prefered" way should be, to update your kernel. bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany