Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS - directories dissapear

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 20:24:27 Deroo Stijn wrote:
> There are indeed a lot of files in the lost+found directory. How can I
> proceed to solve this issue? Is there a patch that solves this problem?

This problem is almost certainly caused by tags corruption in the nand driver
layer.

I suggest you walk through the accesses to see if the nand driver is
corrupting the tags.

-- Charles

>
> KR,
> Stijn.
>
>
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> [mailto:yaffs-bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of Charles Manning
> Sent: zondag 9 november 2008 19:13
> To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk
> Cc: Deroo Stijn
> Subject: Re: [Yaffs] YAFFS - directories dissapear
>
> On Saturday 08 November 2008 00:05:46 Deroo Stijn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Yaffs2 on a 256MB nand flash chip. I have encountered
> > following problem:
> >
> > When I put files on the nand flash via ftp, all seems to go right. But
> > when I turn off and on the power of my device, and connect back via ftp
> > to it, I see some directories/files are disappeared. Although I could
> > see them before I turned of the power supply. Doing a umount/mount before
> > turn power off/on, doesn't change a thing.
> >
> > Did someone experienced the same issue? Where to look at?
>
> Do you have a lot of files in lost+found?
>
> This problem is almost certainly caused by some problem with tags getting
> corrupted in the mtd layer.
>
> -- Charles
>
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