Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-29 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/28/2010 6:51 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nikos Vassiliadisnvass9...@gmx.comwrote: Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.comwrote: fsck time in my case is not an issue. What concerns me mostly is a situation where user intervention is required. The CF filesystem will be used in a embedded system and should work without user intervention. I too

gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on specific part of the disk writing again and again. That should be handled by the CF itself. Though I am

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nvass9...@gmx.comwrote: Hi, I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash. Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than good? My concerns are: 1) wear leveling. The journal is on specific part of the disk writing again