Partition wiped after power loss on WP8548

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Hello,
sometimes power loss occur, and sometimes my WP8548 starting with wiped partition with all user data loss.

Here attached a chunk of core log which I suppose somehow related to this problem:

mount: mounting /dev/ubi2_0 on /mnt/flash failed: Invalid argument
S02mount_early: Unable to mount /dev/ubiblock2_0 onto /mnt/flash.
[    9.822066] block ubiblock2_0: released
[    9.824965] ubi2: detaching mtd4
[    9.863207] ubi2: mtd4 is detached
[    9.968411] yaffs: dev is 32505860 name is "mtdblock4" rw
[    9.973233] yaffs: passed flags "tags-ecc-off"
S02mount_early: YAFFS2 file system on user1 partition is empty, forcing it to be UBIFS.
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 77a0000 -- 100 % complete 
ubiformat: mtd4 (nand), size 125566976 bytes (119.8 MiB), 958 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
libscan: scanning eraseblock 957 -- 100 % complete  
ubiformat: 958 eraseblocks are supposedly empty
ubiformat: formatting eraseblock 930 -- 97 % comp[   23.245872] ubi2: attaching mtd4
ubiformat: formatting eraseblock 957 -- 100 % complete

Is there any workaround to this? I don’t want my data to be wiped.

I run my custom legato image based on Legato linux source.

Any help will be appreciated.

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+1, it happened to me too.

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Was that with Release 13.1? Or some other version?

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I am using custom-built image based on latest Legato Linux Source Distribution Version 16.10.3

https://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/legato/legatolinuxdist/

5

I am using the same version.

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Any updates on this topic?

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Looks like this ends up corrupting the ubifs partition and it ends up wiping it (as per design) to go back to a functional system.

Was the target doing any operations when this occurs or is it just idling or maybe even sleeping?
I guess you could force a sync to limit the occurrence in the meantime.

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Yes, target is active and performing some I/O operations on the partition during runtime, I assume it fails when data is writing to the partition and sudden power loss occur, I can accept this particular data to be lost, but not entire partition.