[En-Nut-Discussion] Problems with PHAT on MMC with ethernut 3, NutOS 4.4.0

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi all,

I experienced several problems with the phat implementation of NutOS
4.4.0 on my ethernut 3 board.

This problem is realy quite urgent as I need a working phat fs for a
current customers project that needs to be finished in a few days.

I use the following setup:

NutOS 4.4.0
32 MB SD Card
Formated with vfat on a linux computer.
One partition.

Mounting the device is done like this:


mmc_volume = _open("MMC0:1/PHAT0", _O_RDWR | _O_BINARY);

later closed with:

_close(mmc_volume);

1. Problem:

Reading the root directory seem to work, reading a just created
directory only shows:

Mounting mmc volume0, partition0 as PHAT filesystem... ok.
Filename: .
Filename: ..
Entry == NULL

Which meens that I only get the . and .. entry even if the directory is
full with files.

Here is the code:

    do {
        /* Read filenames and skip invalid filenames */

        entry = readdir(directory);
        if (entry != NULL) {
            INFO("Filename: %s\r\n", entry->d_name);
            if (entry->d_type != 0) continue;
        }
    } while (entry != NULL);
    INFO("Entry == NULL\r\n");

2. Problem:

Trying to create a new directory corrupts the filesystem. Here is my code:

    if (mkdir(dirname, 0755) != 0) {
        ERROR("Could not create directory %s : error %d\r\n", dirname, errno);
    }

I'll always get errno=17 independently if the directory just exists or
not. If it just exists, it will even exists after the call, but I can't
see any entries. If it does not exists in advance it will not be
created but corrupt the filesystem as well. A chkdsk (fsck.vfat on
linux) shows fixes several problems.

I found the following just closed bug in the tracker:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1714704&group_id=34079&atid=410687

Anybody experienced similar problems?

Complete test code can be provided!

Thanks for any help,

Ole Reinhardt

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