Hi list, I have the following situation:
CPU: MPC852T-100MHz Flash: 32Mbyte mirror-bit, 15Mbyte jffs2 partition rw-mouted Kernel: 2.4.25 (linuxppc_2_4_devel CVS from denx from a month ago or so, with custom patches not concerning MTD at all). For completeness, it contains the file fs/jffs2/gc.c version: gc.c,v 1.145 2005/02/09 09:09:01 Sometimes, I get this: During boot, mounting is quick, but when starting syslogd, it freezes for some 20 minutes, then syslogd returns an error (exit!=0) but the daemon keeps running in background, as well as the garbage collection thread from jffs2 for some additional minutes. During that time, everything like "ls -l" on a certain directory of the flash partition freezes (status D is ps aux) until the GC thread has finished. I can understand that GC has to occur at some time, but is it normal that it takes THAT long??? Is there a newer version of the MTD driver that does not present these symptoms? If this is supposed to work like that, I would say jffs2 is pretty useless for any embedded system, so it is not supposed to be like that, right? RIGHT?? What am I doing wrong? Is the flash partition too big? Shouldn't I be using jffs2? Any advice is appreciated... Greetings, -- David Jander
