[ECOS] Re: JFFS2 eats memory

[Øyvind Harboe]

tir, 20.07.2004 kl. 17.54 skrev David Woodhouse:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:28 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > tir, 20.07.2004 kl. 15.45 skrev David Woodhouse:
> > > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:41 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > > > What if gc_node points to the last node?
> > > 
> > > Then you just finished garbage collecting the eraseblock in question.
> > > You should have a single node which is now first_node and last_node, and
> > > which is obsolete. You can just set gc_node to NULL.
> > 
> > Setting gc_node to NULL crashed when I tried it.

How about my latest version which sets gc_node to the previous node?

> Crashed how? It should be trivially fixable.

I caught it in gc.c where at some point the code assumes that gc_node
does not change beneath it. Don't remember.

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