On 12/16/2011 01:08 AM, Radek Polak wrote:
On Thursday 15 December 2011 22:00:22 fdvj...@vodafone.it wrote:
Hi
I have a Kingstone microSD card 8GB. It seems to be reliable for data
but if I use it with a running distro, at this moment QtMoko, I
experience, during a day of usage, several freezings. I mean, when it is
in suspend mode (deep suspend enabled) if I press the power button the
Neo does not recover from the suspend. I have to pull off the battery
and then restart the Neo, but as can you imagine, after a couple of
times the file system gets corrupted and I have to format the partition.
Moreover this behaviour seems to become worse as the time passes.
Should I consider to replace the uSD card? are there known issues in
using running distro on it?
Thanks.
For me uSD card never worked as stable rootfs. I always ended up with
corrupted filesystem after a couple of days. But for data on FAT it always
worked quite good.
I guess this is some flaw in Freerunner's hardware or kernel driver. On GTA04
i have rootfs on uSD and no problems at all. I am starting to think that NAND
on GTA04 is quite useless - it would be quite cool if it had 2 uSD cards
instead (with BTRFS as fs it could rock).
Regards
Radek
I suspect there is something about the SD card implementation that is
deeply flawed.
To my way of thinking, an interface should be well enough defined so
that two devices should be able to figure out how to reliably talk to
one another after being connected for a short time, even if they were
designed by different groups years apart. The spec should spell out
how, and every device should follow the spec. If it doesn't work this
way, then there is something wrong with the spec, or with the processes
vendors use to implement the spec, and/or with the group that manages
and enforces the spec.
Four years ago I discovered that some SD cards had problems with the
OLPC XO-1. Then I had troubles with micro SD cards in the Freerunner.
Then I heard about problems people were having with the EEE-PC running
Linux. Then the SheevaPlug. And on and on.
Four years later and I'm still hearing stories about SD cards getting
corrupted, and you still find lists of "known to work / not work" cards
in the wikis of various projects. Yet, if you exclude those cards that
have obviously failed (because they don't work properly in anything), I
never have problems with any SD card in any camera.
What is the source of this discrepancy? Those cameras are proprietary
inside, but those other projects are open source. Perhaps the people in
charge of SD aren't revealing something to the open source communities?
I don't know.
There have been endless discussions over the years, about file systems,
race conditions, suspend modes, the gravitational influence of
Jupiter... But I have never heard anyone claim that they actually
understand why a card that Just Works in my camera can't be made to Just
Work in all of our open source devices.
Yes, I know this isn't very constructive... Sometimes I just have to
vent... :-)
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