From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.88]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Avgd7-0004u0-Tz for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:46:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Simon Haynes To: David Woodhouse Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:12:51 +0000 References: <4034E8ED.5757.55A2D9@localhost> <1077641461.7826.578.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <6A0AD5FA09F6@baydel.com> cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: JFFS2 Corruption. Reply-To: simon@baydel.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tuesday 24 Feb 2004 5:05 pm, Simon Haynes wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Feb 2004 4:51 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Hack JFFS2 to always get_mtd_device number 2 and boot with > > root=/dev/ram0 > > Sorry again for being so stupid. I know you have only told me half a dozen > times that JFFS2 does not use the block read and write routines. > > I have done this and rebooted several times. Normally I would expect a CRC > error within a couple or reboots. As yet I have no CRC errors but I do get > a large number of "Empty Flash" messages, about 15 per reboot. I do not see > any of these if I boot via the network and mount and dismount the smc ? > > I will keep rebooting over night and hack the kernel to panic on a CRC > error. > > Would you recommend changing the printk for the "Empty Flash" messages to a > different level and using the ramdisk as a permanent solution ? After several more reboots I got the message jffs2_get_inode_nodes(): Data CRC failed on node at 0x00050748: Read 0x0b5da171, calculated 0xb1b1dbb This actually came out after I had logged in ? I will also look into changing my list to irc.freenode.net. Many Thanks Simon.