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 locat

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 qu

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 aroun

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

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro Sam
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, but was unable to find a journaling file system for FreeBSD.