At mount time JFFS2 CLEANMARKER size change from default 0x0C (12B) to 0x0200 (512B).
I saw this behaviour when I mount my test image on target hw (NOR) and file system size increased in crazy way when I copy any file to it.
Test bench
I create a file with 512kB of "aa55" only for reference and with it the JFFS2 file system uncompressed image was created (erase block 128kB page 4kB)
dd if=<(yes $'\xaa55' |tr -d "\n") of=firma_512kB.txt bs=1024 count=512
mkdir firma/
cp firma
cp firma_512kB.txt firma/
sudo mkfs.jffs2 -v -o firma_512.jffs2 -e 0x20000 -s 0x1000 -m none -d firma/
On target the image was copied to mtd14. (It was erased previously. Look that CLEANMARKER has 0x0c size)
flash_eraseall -j /dev/mtd14
00000000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
00000010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
...
000a0000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
000a0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000c0000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
000c0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
...
*
00860000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
00860010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
00880000
Image copy to mtd15 device and inspection, shows... (It could be seen that image was copy ok and CLEANMARKER size still is 0x0c)
dd if=firma_512.jffs2 of=/dev/mtd14
hexdump -C /dev/mtd14
(hexdump -C /dev/mtdblock14 gives the same result)
....
00081340 85 19 02 e0 44 10 00 00 6d 58 d1 84 02 00 00 00 |....D...mX......|
00081350 84 00 00 00 a4 81 00 00 e8 03 e8 03 00 00 08 00 |................|
00081360 a3 dc df 53 a3 dc df 53 a3 dc df 53 00 f0 07 00 |...S...S...S....|
00081370 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 db 7c 54 f0 |.............|T.|
00081380 3c 30 bd 6f aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 |<0.o.U.U.U.U.U.U|
00081390 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 |.U.U.U.U.U.U.U.U|
*
00082380 aa 55 aa 55 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |.U.U............|
00082390 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000a0000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
000a0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000c0000 85 19 03 20 0c 00 00 00 b1 b0 1e e4 ff ff ff ff |... ............|
000c0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
And now the braindeath problem, at least for me. mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock14 /mnt/app2
dmesg
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00000000 has totlen 0xc != normal 0x200
...
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x000c0000 has totlen 0xc != normal 0x200
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x000e0000 has totlen 0xc != normal 0x200
...
CLEANMARKER node found at 0x00860000 has totlen 0xc != normal 0x200
hexdump -C /dev/mtd14
....
00081340 85 19 02 e0 44 10 00 00 6d 58 d1 84 02 00 00 00 |....D...mX......|
00081350 84 00 00 00 a4 81 00 00 e8 03 e8 03 00 00 08 00 |................|
00081360 a3 dc df 53 a3 dc df 53 a3 dc df 53 00 f0 07 00 |...S...S...S....|
00081370 00 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 db 7c 54 f0 |.............|T.|
00081380 3c 30 bd 6f aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 |<0.o.U.U.U.U.U.U|
00081390 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 aa 55 |.U.U.U.U.U.U.U.U|
*
00082380 aa 55 aa 55 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |.U.U............|
00082390 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000a0000 85 19 03 20 00 02 00 00 67 db 4c ad ff ff ff ff |... ....g.L.....|
000a0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000c0000 85 19 03 20 00 02 00 00 67 db 4c ad ff ff ff ff |... ....g.L.....|
000c0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
*
000e0000 85 19 03 20 00 02 00 00 67 db 4c ad ff ff ff ff |... ....g.L.....|
000e0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|
The CLEANMARKER size change not only make a mess but waste a lot of space in device. Why at mount time it is changed? It can be avoided?
Your advise/suggestion are welcome
Target desrciption:
Linux-2.6.31
NOR: Spansion S29GL512S (Erase Sector 128kB Page Size 4kB x16dBUS)