Re: zaurus pata_pcmcia corrupted filesystem

From: Kristoffer Ericson
Date: Sat Aug 14 2010 - 05:41:47 EST


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:44:11PM +0200, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> Marek Vasut ported deprecated zaurus pcmcia disk driver to the pata_pcmcia
> interface, sources are here:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/marex/pxa-linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/zaurus-haxing
>
> Everythig seems to be fine at the first look but sometimes the filesystem gets
> unconsistent. Typical example is extracting tar archive with big number of
> files and directories (I used ltp-full archive from
> http://www.sf.net/projects/ltp/). After doing that, some files or directories
> are present in the filesystem, eg. you can see them in directory listing but
> open or fstat returns ENOENT.
>
> Extracting to SD card seems to work without any problems.
>
> Anybody has idea what went wrong?

What kind of number of files (in tar archive) are we talking about in round
figures? Does the files it affect differ in size (large fail, small doesnt)..?
Its hard to say without having more data (as always).

>
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> metan@xxxxxx
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