Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-19 Thread Cordula's Web
On January 18, 2004 10:48 pm, Micheas Herman wrote: Use flash ram cards and a journaling file system. (soft updates may work but you need to talk to someone that knows about them much better than I do.) Beware when using flash ram as some kind of live filesystem! Flash media has a quite

Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Cordula's Web wrote: Beware when using flash ram as some kind of live filesystem! Flash media has a quite limited number of erase cycles You may think that's plenty, but since filesystem meta-data is often written at the same location (superblocks etc...), this location

Re: [was: Cutting the power ... ] Journaling file system

2004-01-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:04:04PM -0500, Pedro Sam wrote: On January 18, 2004 10:48 pm, Micheas Herman wrote: Use flash ram cards and a journaling file system. (soft updates may work but you need to talk to someone that knows about them much better than I do.) I've googled around a bit,