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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:15:11 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Alexander Belyakov <abelyako@...glemail.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Subject: Re: jffs2: -ENOSPC when truncating file?!
Hi!
> > I'm trying to free space by truncating big file, and I get:
> >
> > root@...-gta01:~# ls -al gps.nmea
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea
> > -sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No space left on device
> > root@...-gta01:~# rm gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~# > gps.nmea
> > root@...-gta01:~#
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Kernel is not-so-ancient, on openmoko:
>
> Hi!
>
> JFFS2 has known bug in GC leading to -ENOSPC upon file removal. Time
> ago I've sent a patch with detailed explanations of what is going on.
> Probably your case is the same.
>
> Here is the patch
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-December/020091.html
> (though infradead mailing list archive is missing most of messages
> from this thread)
>
> And here are some details
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-June/018756.html
Patch is here (I whitespace-damaged it, sorry], and I've seen no
discussion.. should it just be applied?
Pavel
diff -uNr a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
--- a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c 2007-05-25 01:22:47.000000000 +0400
+++ b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c 2007-06-20 18:45:09.000000000 +0400
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Removing eraseblock at 0x%08x
from erasable_pending_wbuf_list...\n", jeb->offset));
list_del(this);
- if ((jiffies + (n++)) & 127) {
+ if (((jiffies + (n++)) & 127) &&
!list_empty(&c->erasable_list)) {
/* Most of the time, we just erase it immediately. Otherwise we
spend ages scanning it on mount, etc. */
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "...and adding to
erase_pending_list\n"));
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