Second hand information about the battery trick: yaffs2 has some sanity-checking code that can detect and recover from unlinked files, but that code is only run when the filesystem wasn't cleanly unmounted.
JBQ On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Another place to look -- there is a filesystem bug that can sometimes happen >> where unlinked files are not recovered. Here is the comment from an >> engineer who knows more about it: >> >> "They can easily tell by looking at the number of unlinked files for the >> user partition in /proc/yaffs. If that number is very large, then they can >> reboot the device, wait a few second after they see the android, then pull >> the battery again. That should make the number of unlinked files drop back >> down. If that number isn't very large, then it is probably something else." > > I read about this on the net -- I thought it was some sort of a dark > joke or something -- apparently not :) > I did pull the battery though - nothing (good) happened. > > This developer you're talking about - can he elaborate on how the > "battery pull trick" actually works -- I'm genuinely interested. > >> >> Unfortunately it looks like only root cat read /proc/yaffs (though that >> seems a little overly restrictive). However you can try the pulling the >> battery trick and see if that helps. >> >>> >>> Well, the over-the-air patch @#$%ed root access so I can't look anywhere. >> >> The /data/local directory is owned by the shell user, so you don't need root >> for that -- just "cd /data/local" and look at what is there. There is a >> chance that some temp .apk files have been left there from "adb install", or >> some other files created by other shell sessions. > > I already reset the phone but if I encounter this again I'll check > there (+ I'll have root this time :) > > Thanks, > Stoyan > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
