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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: XNAND file system
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:57:18 -0000

--- In  Jim Ham <> wrote:
>
> I'd like to poll everyone who has experience with the xnand fs used on 
> some of the Technologic boards. Is anyone using this in the field? I'd 
> like to see a short answer from everyone who has experience - Yes, we're 
> using it; No, we're not; We're just now trying it out; etc.
> 
> I ask as I have an image that works well booting from an SD card. I 
> moved the image to the flash (xnand) and almost immediately started 
> getting file corruption. At this point it's unknown where the fault 
> lies. I've has two massive file system failures in the one day where I 
> was using xnand. This is after weeks of development using the SDcard. 
> The hardware is a TS-4700 attached to a TS-8390. The system includes a 
> UPS that keeps the power on for approximately 10 seconds after the 
> system shuts down with halt.
> 
> I have to say that I am using a custom kernel (based on the ts released 
> kernel dated 9/1/11), and a custom root file system generated by 
> buildroot. Almost all utilities are busybox, including init and halt.
> 
> Support, especially Mark, has been very helpful. He has already 
> identified one potential problem where halt on my system shuts down all 
> processes including the xnand user-space utilities. It seems that the 
> Debian images the TS supplies have hooks to make sure that halt excludes 
> the xnand processes.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Ham
> 
> -- 
> Porcine Associates LLC
> 244 O'Connor St.
> Menlo Park, CA 94025
> USA
> +1(650)326-2669 fax +1(650)326-1071
>


We have about 500 TS7550 out in the field. We have had one or two units get 
corrupt filesystems but I think this is likely due to low quality power 
supplies.   I used to have great trouble loading an initial filesystem image 
from USB onto flash.  Out of every 100, about 10 to 20 units would fail with 
file system corruption during the copy BUT this stopped when I changed the 
power supplies to better quality units.




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