Re: [U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-11-19 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi Albert, > Le 17/11/2010 19:01, Quotient Remainder a écrit : >> Ar Céad, 2010-11-17 ag 17:25 +0100, scríobh Albert ARIBAUD: >> >>> Do you mean that, in Linux, you do a power cycle without (syncing and) >>> unmounting a file system that will be critical to properly booting later >>> on? If so, wh

Re: [U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-11-17 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Le 17/11/2010 19:01, Quotient Remainder a écrit : > Ar Céad, 2010-11-17 ag 17:25 +0100, scríobh Albert ARIBAUD: > >> Do you mean that, in Linux, you do a power cycle without (syncing and) >> unmounting a file system that will be critical to properly booting later >> on? If so, what is the rationale

Re: [U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-11-17 Thread Quotient Remainder
Ar Céad, 2010-11-17 ag 17:25 +0100, scríobh Albert ARIBAUD: > Do you mean that, in Linux, you do a power cycle without (syncing and) > unmounting a file system that will be critical to properly booting later > on? If so, what is the rationale behind this too-quick power cycle? Yes, I'm testing

Re: [U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-11-17 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Le 17/11/2010 17:01, Quotient Remainder a écrit : > Ar Aoine, 2010-09-17 ag 12:44 -0400, scríobh Eric Cooper: >> But I just discovered that it has a fatal disadvantage. My device >> can't reboot when the ubifs is corrupted, which happened today after a >> power failure: >> >> UBIFS: recovery

Re: [U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-11-17 Thread Quotient Remainder
Ar Aoine, 2010-09-17 ag 12:44 -0400, scríobh Eric Cooper: > But I just discovered that it has a fatal disadvantage. My device > can't reboot when the ubifs is corrupted, which happened today after a > power failure: > > UBIFS: recovery needed > Error reading superblock on volume 'ubi:root

[U-Boot] request for ubifs recovery support

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Cooper
I've configured my device (a Seagate DockStar) with just two NAND flash partitions -- one for u-boot and one for the Linux rootfs. This has some nice advantages: it maximizes the available flash space, and allows the Linux distribution's own tools to install new kernel and initramfs files without