You could stick with ext2 and only ever mount it in read-only mode
(providing you don't need to write to disk) this way you can power off at
any stage with no risk of corruption.
(Great for MP3 players :)
JohnG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: Booting from compact flash?
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:17:07 -0700, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> While we are on the subject is anyone working on a project that is "turn
on" use and then
> "turn off" if so then what kind if techniques and filesystems are you
using to accomplish
> this?
>
> How much time does it take to un-mount a filesystem?
>
>
> Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 501.846.5777
> Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
>
>
--
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body.
For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
