From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
To: Iram Shahzad <iram.shahzad@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Brijesh Singh <brij.singh@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: UBIFS recovery truncates file to zero size
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:31:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B792F8.7020609@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b5362aa0903110251y3b0d23bcy61b20db12ba8c1e1@mail.gmail.com>
Brijesh Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Iram Shahzad
> <iram.shahzad@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> I am having the following problem with UBIFS (Linux 2.6.25 + ubifs-v2.6.25).
>> Please could you tell me if this is a known issue.
>>
>> Problem
>> If the power is switched off abruptly while a file is being written,
>> in the next boot the contents of the file is lost. That is, the file
>> becomes zero sized. The problem is reproducable.
>
> May be because of write-back support. Try disabling it.mount with sync option.
There was also a problem with busybox implementation of vi which truncated
the file to zero length. See revision 21928 here:
http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/editors/vi.c?view=log&pathrev=22471
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 9:16 UBIFS recovery truncates file to zero size Iram Shahzad
2009-03-11 9:51 ` Brijesh Singh
2009-03-11 10:31 ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2009-03-11 18:13 ` Reuben Dowle
2009-03-12 2:44 ` Iram Shahzad
2009-03-12 8:26 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-03-12 8:49 ` Iram Shahzad
2009-03-12 10:25 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-03-12 11:08 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-03-12 11:11 ` Jamie Lokier
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