Bug? Clean /jffs/ and /tmp/mnt/sda1 after restart?

[Cumulonimbus]

Hi,

i have enabled /jffs/ and copied some file to it.

mkdir /jffs/sundtek/
cp /test.cfg /jffs/sundtek/

After Restart:
admin@RT-AC66U:/jffs# ls
configs scripts

Also, a formated USB-Stick on ext3 (mounted as /tmp/mnt/sda1/ is clean after reboot.

Any Idea whats going on?

 

[RMerlin]

Hi,

i have enabled /jffs/ and copied some file to it.

mkdir /jffs/sundtek/
cp /test.cfg /jffs/sundtek/

After Restart:
admin@RT-AC66U:/jffs# ls
configs scripts

Also, a formated USB-Stick on ext3 (mounted as /tmp/mnt/sda1/ is clean after reboot.

Any Idea whats going on?

For JFFS, either you are running an old version of the FW (there was a bug where the format flag wouldn't get reset once done formatting), or you selected the option to format the JFFS partition without rebooting, so on next reboot it went ahead and reformatted the partition.

For the USB stick, there is nothing in the firmware that could explain its content disappearing.

 

[Cumulonimbus]

For JFFS, either you are running an old version of the FW (there was a bug where the format flag wouldn't get reset once done formatting), or you selected the option to format the JFFS partition without rebooting, so on next reboot it went ahead and reformatted the partition.

i run these Firmware: 3.0.0.4.374.32 (Merlin build)
But i have do an update via Firmware-Update from your 3.0.0.4.372.32 beta 3, then reformat jffs on next boot. Thats the Reason?

 

[Cumulonimbus]

For JFFS, either you are running an old version of the FW

I setup the new Firmware back to Factory Defaults, then reconfigure an now /jffs/ is really persistent.

 

[RMerlin]

i run these Firmware: 3.0.0.4.374.32 (Merlin build)
But i have do an update via Firmware-Update from your 3.0.0.4.372.32 beta 3, then reformat jffs on next boot. Thats the Reason?

You might have forgotten to reboot after setting the reformat option perhaps.

One thing to note: the RT-AC66U (like the RT-AC56U) has enough flash space that you can be sure that the jffs content will NOT be lost when updating to a new firmware, unlike the RT-N16 and RT-N66U where the jffs partition will use whatever space is left by the firmware partition itself (which can change size).