[Yaffs] Yaffs & uclinux kernel 2.4.22 problem

[Sergey Kubushyn]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Charles Manning wrote:

> On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:24, Ludovic Guilhamat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to shift from Jffs2 to Yaffs, but I have some problems...
> >
> > Well, I work on a Coldfire platform, with uClinux and a 2.4.22
> kernel.
> >
> > I successfully compiled Yaffs on this distrib, but I've a problem
> when I
> > want to mount a Nand partition with Yaffs.
> > Actually, it's a Jffs2 partition (empty), so I unmount it, I use
> > 'mkyaffs /dev/mtd1' to format it, and I use 'mount -t yaffs /dev/mtd1
> > /var/parameters' to mount it, but I have this message :
> >
> > mtdblock_open
> > ok
> > yaffs: dev is 7937 name is "1f:01"
> > yaffs_read_super: MTD block size 4096
> > yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.1, "1f:01"
> > yaffs locking
> >
> >
> > yaffs_read_super: guts initialised
> > yaffs_read_super : guts initialized...
> > yaffs_get_inode for object 146776
> > yaffs_read_inode for 146776
>
> Did all that happen just from the mount or did you do something between
> mounting and crashing? It seems that the scanning itself went fine.
>
> One of the best things you can do at this point is to turn on a bit
> more
> tracing. tracing is controlled by yaffs_traceMask in yaffs_fs.c. Set it
> to
> 0xFFFFFFFF and you'll get everything.
>
> Are you using yaffs or yaffs2 codebase?

BTW, don't even try to simultaneosly enable MTD debug and set YAFFS trace
mask to all Fs... Dunno about other configurations but syslog-ng on
AT91RM9200 logging over NFS does not keep up with the flow so most of YAFFS
messages are simply lost...

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