I am using a JFFS2 file system on a NAND flash based memory system. I have a file in a partition that has been updated several times from the Linux that is running. What I notice when I perform an ls from the UBOOT prompt is that there are multiple instances of that file each with a different file length. I have tried turning on the define CFG_JFFS2_SORT_FRAGMENTS for the UBOOT build but this only results in reordering the ls results. I was looking at the code in file jffs2_1pass.c:

/* list inodes with the given pino */ static u32 jffs2_1pass_list_inodes(struct b_lists * pL, u32 pino) { struct b_node *b; struct jffs2_raw_dirent *jDir;

for (b = pL->dir.listHead; b; b = b->next) { jDir = (struct jffs2_raw_dirent *) get_node_mem(b->offset); if ((pino == jDir->pino) && (jDir->ino)) { /* ino=0 -> unlink */ u32 i_version = 0; struct jffs2_raw_inode ojNode; struct jffs2_raw_inode *jNode, *i = NULL; struct b_node *b2 = pL->frag.listHead;

while (b2) { jNode = (struct jffs2_raw_inode *) get_fl_mem(b2->offset, sizeof(ojNode), &ojNode); if (jNode->ino == jDir->ino && jNode->version >= i_version) { if (i) put_fl_mem(i);

if (jDir->type == DT_LNK) i = get_node_mem(b2->offset); else i = get_fl_mem(b2->offset, sizeof(*i), NULL); } b2 = b2->next; }

dump_inode(pL, jDir, i); put_fl_mem(i); } put_fl_mem(jDir); } return pino; }

So I have several questions:

1. In briefly looking at this code I see that the variable i_version is set to 0 and never updated during the scan of nodes. I am not familiar with the JFFS2 internals but this seems incorrect. Can someone please confirm i_version compares?

2. I also noticed that there is an alternate file in the same directory named jffs2_nand_1pass.c. It appears that this file is not used in the normal build of the fs/jffs2 object. When I tried using this file as an alternative for jff2_1pass.c, I found that the alternate file would not even compile if either DEBUG, DEBUG_DIRENTS or DEBUG_FRAGMENTS defines set. Could someone please comment on the state of this file and if it ready for general usage?

3. I also notice that neither of these files has support for the nodetype == JFFS2_NODETYPE_SUMMARY. So during the scan there are annoying messages that complain about the unknown node types. Is there a pending patch to take care of the additional node types?

Thank you in advance for any information.

Daniel Batryn Shoretel Inc. 960 Stewart Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Phone: (408) 331-3575 Fax: (408) 331-3333

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