On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:45:41PM -0400, Robert Kondner wrote:
>
> and ATA Flash. Card vendors will imply that there is a Flash
> File System in ATA cards. From my standpoint there is none. Power down
> one of
> these cards during a write and they get really screwed. We wrote some
> low level
> sector restore code to reset cards screwed turning test.
>
> Can anyone else provide input on using Flash File systems on ARMs or
> Linux
> in general?
It might be a good idea to look into ext3fs for this. It's basically
ext2 with journalling support, but the point of journalling is to
make write operations safe (ie if power goes down half-way through
a write, the operation can be continued later, since it's in the
journal).
It might be worth looking into this as a replacement for flashfs if
you have no joy in getting that to work. In fact it's quite likely
that flashfs is journalled itself. However, I know little about
ext2 and nothing about flashfs aside from what you've mentioned, so
YMMV.
Cheers,
Phil
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