Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
>> Hi Charles, and thanks for a quick reply.
>>
>> Here's a paste of dmesg following these commands:
>> $ echo "+os" > /proc/yaffs
>> $ touch /config/3
>> $ sync
>> <a few seconds of waiting>
>> $ sync
>> <poweroff>
>>
>>    http://fpaste.org/uumk/
>>
>> When it comes back up, the file does not exist.  I also tried sync;
>> sleep 4; sync, with the same result.
>
> I have some more info.
>
>
> [hgbsaturn:~] $ touch /config/6
> [hgbsaturn:~] $ echo 6 > /config/6.content
> [hgbsaturn:~] $ sync
> [hgbsaturn:~] $ sync
> [hgbsaturn:~] $ reboot -f
>
> Logging on when it comes back up, /config/6.content exists, but
> /config/6 does not.  This appears to be the consistent behaviour.
> If the file does not have content, it does not appear after boot.
>
> Also, apparently, it doesn't seem to matter how much time passes
> between syncs and before/after syncs.  The box can stay up for hours
> after the file was touched, and it will still disappear.

Note that this does not happen when the loopback-mounted image itself
sits on an ext2 partition.


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