Hi,
There's nothing wrong with using a ODS filesystem on an embedded linux
box. I use it a lot and it works great with a system that is ran entirely
from a ramdisk. Use syslinux as a bootloader and mkdosfs to create the
filesystem and you do not need any DOS operating system or license.
> If he likes DOS that much, why don't you let him have it?
> Probably still have to boot from ext2, though.
> OTOH, I have once lost a file in ext2 when my computer
> crashed. But only once and have seen Linux-machines
> crash (driver development and HW errors) and power
> fail least once a week for about 4 years now.
> It is my opinion that you need a lot of bad luck
> to loose files when Linux crashes. Sure, you will
> loose the file you have open for write but it is
> not difficult to create a scheme that minimize
> the damage. In fact you probably need this for
> DOS fs too.
I've been running servers under adverse conditions. No UPS and multiple
power outages each week. I would say on avarage we get a fschk error when
booting every month or so. This is a firewall box created from a full
linux distribution. So there shouldn't be a lot of disk activity but
nontheless...
TTYL,
Adi
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