[Yaffs] problems using Yaffs2 on linux 2.6.14

[Nori, Soma Sekhar]

LiYong wrote:
> I downloaded the newest CVS tarball through webcvs and used it in
Linux
> 2.6.14 on ARM 9 cpu.
> 
> On the 2K page Nand flash, after mount this nand flash as a Yaffs2
file
> system, I can copy files to it. However, After umount and remout this
nand
> flash, all files I copied are missing!
> 
> How to narrow down this problem?

This is the symptom seen when YAFFS2 is used with stock mtd. You need a
patch to the YAFFS2 mtd interface file. The patch can be found in the
mailing list archive.

Sekhar Nori.