#4184 BLOC First D: JFFS2 Dirent Anomaly

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#4184: JFFS2 Dirent Anomaly
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  Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |       Owner:  dwmw2                 
      Type:  defect             |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  blocker            |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  kernel             |     Version:                        
Resolution:                     |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                  |  
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Comment(by dwmw2):

 Analysis so far shows that it is garbage collection going wrong -- somehow
 there are _two_ 'joydev.ko' entries in the dirent list for the offending
 directory, which should never happen. When GC tries to obsolete one of
 them, it removes the _other_ one from the list instead -- so it doesn't
 make any progress at all, and writes out a dirent for the same 'joydev.ko'
 over and over again, because that's always the next node to be obsoleted.

 Still investigating how this happens....

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