Re: Booting from compact flash?

[Jeffrey B. Siegal]

Paul Albert wrote:
> We've actually gone to ext3 to prevent file system corruption when
> hit with an unexpected power cycle.

I'm sure you're aware of this, but for the other people reading...

Using ext3 (or any journaling file system for that matter) keeps the
file system from getting corrupted, but it doesn't necessarily keep your
*data* from getting corrupted.  To do that, you need to make sure your
application is also using transactional data management techniques.

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