[U-Boot] UBI attach issues

[Andy Ng]

Thank you for your reply.

by going to update u-boot, does it guaranty corruption free UBI if the
power goes away during the phase where u-boot fetches uImage from the
ubifs?

best regards,
Andy

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de> wrote:
> Hello Andy,
>
> Am 01.02.2016 um 09:58 schrieb Andy Ng:
>>
>> Dear u-boot team,
>>
>> Occasionally, I get corrupted rootfs if the system power goes away
>> while u-boot is attaching the root file system in order to fetch the
>> kernel.
>>
>> I am using imx6 Solo and u-boot 2013-10.
>>
>> Is there any way to stop uboot messing up the file system while making
>> attachment of UBI? Does the latest u-boot provides a better way to
>> protect the ubi file system during attachment.
>>
>>
>> Any advice or guidance will be very much appreciated.
>
>
> In principle U-Boot has the same code as Linux. Current
> U-Boot uses Linux code from:
>
> linux v4.2 commit 64291f7db5bd8150a74ad2036f1037e6a0428df2
>
> see U-Boot commit: 0195a7bb36a0abc71145da419001377bf56662fd
>
> 2013-10 uses an older Source Base, so update to current U-Boot
> is recommended... yes.
>
> Do you see this issue also with Linux?
>
> Do you use UBI FASTMAP?
>
> bye,
> Heiko
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