[Yaffs-archive] Re: YAFFS softlink bug?

[Charles Manning]

Nick

Could you try this again with the caching off (CONFIG_YAFFS_GENERIC_RW not 
enabled).

This will help determine which mechanism is misbehaving.

Thanx

-- CHarles

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 05:15, Nick Bane wrote:
> I have been using the latest CVS with caching enabled and found it to be
> generally stable.
>
> While copying (plain cp) nfs mounted files I tripped over a problem with
> softlinks that I had not noted before.
>
> Copying over libgdbm.so.1.7.3 was no problem but doing ln -s
> libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libgdbm.so.1 it failed to create the link.
> The ln returned fine but ldconfig claimed that it couldn't make the link.
> A plain ls on the directory recorded that the link "could not be found" yet
> it discovered the filename but failed to find the file.
>
> Trying to unmount the directory returned it being busy.
> A reboot (simple reboot, no -f or -a) resulted in the link now seeming ok.
> Is this a case of a zero length file failing to be registered in the cache
> on creation but appearing on mount scan or something?
>
> The NAND device is a 32MB part with df reporting 83% usage.
>
> Nick Bane
>
>
>
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