Hi all :)
I have a portable device with a FAT32 formatted hard disk in it, and
everytime I delete a file in the device *using the device itself to do
it* the device increases its count of free space and if I plug the
device in a Windows system, Windows agrees on the free space. Linux
Hi Juergen :)
* Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thursday 19 April 2007 10:57, DervishD wrote:
I have a portable device with a FAT32 formatted hard disk in it, and
everytime I delete a file in the device *using the device itself to
do it* the device increases its count
Hi Boaz :)
* Boaz Harrosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Apart from not using the device itself to delete files (and probably
not using Windows for that, either) and to run fsck.vfat now and
then, is anything I can do to avoid this problem?
Not that I know how to fix it. But have you
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A mount option to force walking the FAT and getting the real
info could be interesting. That way, it will be only done for
certain devices (small disks, for example).
Yes. It seems that Windows
Hi Ogawa (and Andrew) :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there some way in which we can work out what's happened and fix
it up?
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented. Windows doesn't update
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is that if a program writes a file onto the filesystem
without using statfs first to check for free space, the free_clusters
entry won't have the real value and the driver may report
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
So the last free sector count is also stored. When mounting this
filesystem you don't need to walk through the whole FAT to calculate
the available
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It would add the limitation to following simple usage,
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
# cp -a * /mnt
# umount
if /dev/sda1 was the large and slow device, mount
Hi Antonino :)
NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROBLEM
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
With the patch, the scroll slows to a crawl and the system is
unusable. The time to scroll 30 lines is about a minute or so
Hi Carlo :)
* Carlo Florendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(in short, if i, the builder, explicitly choose *not* to add a
certain feature to my build, i think i have every right to expect that
some other part of my configuration isn't quietly going to put some
Hi all :)
From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negative
offset problem) garbles the display, leaving only a lot of thin lines,
just like sync was lost. The display can be repaired by switching to
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 15:47 +0100, DervishD wrote:
From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negative
offset problem) garbles
Hi James :)
* James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
From time to time, the tdfxfb driver from 2.6.19.5 (sorry, I cannot
test in 2.6.20.x because it doesn't compile, the infamous BDF negative
offset problem) garbles the display, leaving only a lot of thin lines,
just like sync
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:13 +0100, DervishD wrote:
Try fbset -a -vyres 600 first and let us know of the result.
After doing this, I no longer can garble the display (before, just a
ls -lR / was enough to do it, in fact
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 21:32 +0100, DervishD wrote:
Probably setting it back to 4096 will make the problem reappear.
Right now I cannot test, but I'll make some experiments.
Can you try this patch? It might help
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Can you try this patch? It might help with the screen corruption.
With the patch, the scroll slows to a crawl and the system is
unusable. The time to scroll 30 lines is about a minute or so (probably
more, I just measured
Hi all :))
I'm CC'ing this message to LKML because I don't know if this is some
weird (and known) interaction between modules.
I'm using vanilla 2.6.19.5.
I was having a problem using this rule:
ACTION==add, ENV{MODALIAS}==?*, RUN+=/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}
and I
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:01 +0100, DervishD wrote:
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Can you try this patch? It might help with the screen
corruption.
With the patch, the scroll slows to a crawl
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:01 +0100, DervishD wrote:
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Can you try
Hi Antonino :)
* Antonino A. Daplas [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 07:25 +0100, DervishD wrote:
If you want me to test other patches, just tell :)
Can you change the mdelay to udelay and use higher/lower delay values
to see if there's any improvement
Hi Benny :)
* Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention
described below that I personally found the most practical with
several different editors.
While I respect you opinion about tabs, I find tab indentation the most
Bonjour Xavier :)
* Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Le samedi 10 novembre 2007 à 13:04 +0100, DervishD a écrit :
* Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I would like to hear peoples opinion about the indentation convention
described below that I personally found the most
Hi Benny :)
* Benny Halevy [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Using only spaces as DervishD suggested works around that using brute
force by forcing the user to the author's preference which is
legitimate but may not be the most productive way.
I admit it.
I think that my proposal of using tabs
Hi Abdel :)
* Abdel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
In file include/asm-i386/system.h, _set_base and _set_limit use an
useless do ... while(0)
Why is this needed ?
Google for do while swallow semicolon. This looks like an useless and
weird construction but it is very useful when it comes to
Hi all :)
I'm thinking about switching fully to libata in the near future
(currently I'm using CONFIG_IDE for all my PATA drives, both hard disks
and DVD recorder), and I was wondering if PATA support for VIA8237 was
full or not. For what I've googled, it seems that it is usable both for
PATA
Hi Thierry :)
* Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm thinking about switching fully to libata in the near future
(currently I'm using CONFIG_IDE for all my PATA drives, both hard disks
and DVD recorder), and I was wondering if PATA support
Dear whoever,
* Sean Robert McGuffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Dear whoever is in charge of writing fedora core 7,
Have you tried FC forums? This list is about the linux kernel, not
about distros. The name, Linux Kernel Mailing List should have rang a
bell (or even two).
The auto
Hi all :)
I noticed lately that my traffic control rates were being very slow,
about 40% less than expected, and finally spotted the problem: cpufreq.
Looks like HTB puts buckets according to the requested rate but
assuming that the CPU is running at its default clock or something
Hi Stephen :)
* Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:51:55 +0200 DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I noticed lately that my traffic control rates were being very
slow, about 40% less than expected, and finally spotted the
problem: cpufreq
Hi Martin :)
* Martin MOKREJ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
again I've hit some wird problem doing make dep for 2.4 kernel:
Not a kernel problem but a findutils problem. Fixed in 4.2.19,
but 4.2.20 was released recently. Upgrade.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux Registered
Hi Grzegorz :)
* Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Apr 19 14:03:49 thinkpaddie kernel: Vendor: USB Read Model: CF Card
CF Rev: 1.8D
Apr 19 14:03:49 thinkpaddie kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[...]
But no SD card is detected, and
Hi Srinivas :)
* Srinivas G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
How to get maximum output from dmesg command?
I am unable to see all my debug messages after loading my driver.
I think there is a restriction in displaying the dmesg output.
I saw in printk.c file under source directory. There I
Hi Rogério :)
* Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Srinivas G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw in printk.c file under source directory. There I found LOG_BUF_LEN
is 16384.
Sorry if this is obvious, but have you considered using the -s option of
dmesg?
Of course, there is no
Hi Horst :)
* Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a good idea to have a copy of the partition table around, if
it is not simple (the one you had is NOT simple).
Be careful. What you'll get out of backing up the partition table is /only
Hi Konstantin :)
* Konstantin Kudin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Actually, it seems like one can backup information on ALL partitions
by using the command sfdisk -dx /dev/hdX. Supposedly, it reads not
only primary but also extended partitions. sfdisk -x /dev/hdX should
be then able to write
Hi kernel.
* kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
First 446 bytes are boot code and all
Next 64 bytes are for 4 partition records, 16 bytes each
Last 2 bytes are signature
And that's right, but only for the MBR. If you set up an extended
partition in the MBR, the partition table for that
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:24:25 +0200, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a new MP3 player, and when I disconnect it from the USB
port, my logs says:
30Jul 19 18:11:05 kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.3-1
Hi Nico :)
* Nico Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants
to shutdown the system?
What I do in my vcinit, the last steps I mean, is:
reboot(RB_POWER_OFF); /* If halting*/
or
reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT); /* If
Hi Konstantin :)
* Konstantin Kudin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Can anyone enlighten me what the pluses mean?
It is commented in the README.fdisk file in util-linux
distribution: the '+' flag means that the partition has an odd number
of sectors. That means that you can waste a sector at
Hi all :)
I don't know if I've had this error previously, I noticed it this
morning when recompiling the kernel *I already use*. When doing 'make
dep' I had this:
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/kernel'
scripts/mkdep -- `find /usr/kernel/include/asm /usr/kernel/include/linux
Hi all :)
Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I get
(correctly) 100x37 character grid. All of that is correct. What is
not
Hi David :)
* David [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Mar 22 at 08:51:16, DervishD wrote:
Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Linux Kernel 2.4.29, in a do-it-yourself linux box, equipped with
an AGP Voodoo 3 2000 card, tdfx framebuffer support. I boot in vga
mode 0x0f05, with parameter 'video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and I get
(correctly) 100x37 character
Hi :))
I want to upgrade my iproute2 package, in my do-it-yourself linux
box. I'm currently using iproute2-ss010824.
I've gone to the distribution sites and I find a lot of iproute2
flavors... Namely:
- 2.2.4 'ss' version
- 2.4.7 'now-ss' version
- 2.6.10 version
-
Hi all :)
I'm going to build a new glibc for my system, and I've installed
'linux-libc-headers', but I've noticed that it provides headers for
'scsi/' subdir, and glibc *does that too*. Should I use the scsi
headers from llh? Should I instead compiled my new glibc without that
headers and
Hi all and sorry for self-answering:
* DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
'linux-libc-headers', but I've noticed that it provides headers for
'scsi/' subdir, and glibc *does that too*. Should I use the scsi
headers from llh? Should I instead compiled my new glibc without that
headers
Hi Mariusz :)
* Mariusz Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On ?roda 30 marzec 2005 20:10, DervishD wrote:
Yes, I know, this is in the llh FAQ, but the answer starts with
'Not too sure on this one', that's the reason I'm asking here...
Use whatever works. And ignore anybody telling you
Hi Mariusz :)
* Mariusz Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I don't know which set of headers will work, and in fact I don't
know if I must follow 'Linux From Scratch' advice and use raw kernel
headers for building glibc and LLH headers for any other thing. I
think I probably will use
Hi Pavan :)
* pavan kishore [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
i'm doing project on TFTP n need the practical scenario
of implimentation.assist me in bringing out the best design.
In the kernel? Why? There are a couple tftp implementations out
there quite good. IIRC, H.Peter Anvin has one.
Hi Jesper :)
* Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
And I don't see any point in LFS suggesting using raw kernel
headers to compile glibc
I don't know their reasons because I haven't read any rationale
(if any exists at all). Anyway, I've used LLH (including the scsi
Hi everybody :)
I've been solving a USB problem related to a digital photo
camera, and I've noticed that 'libusb' uses a ioctl interface to the
USB kernel system. In fact it implements 'usb_control_msg()' using
ioctl's. On the other hand, the kernel itself (I'm talking about
2.4.29)
Hi Oliver :)
* Oliver Neukum [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2005 13:20 schrieb DervishD:
My question is: which interface should be used by user space
applications, linux/usb.h or ioctl's? Is the ioctl interface
deprecated in any way? In the Programming guide
Hi Alan :)
* Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
BTW, and judging from the program I've read, there are lots of
operations that must be done using 'usb_control_msg', and libusb
implements that function with exactly the same interface as the
kernel. The only difference is that
Hi Johannes :)
* Johannes Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Oliver Neukum [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
You are supposed to use libusb.
That's irrelevant, the program I was trying to fix uses libusb.
My question is about
Hi Johannes :)
* Johannes Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Didn't knew about that... Thanks a lot for the info!. Is there
any documentation available for the ioctl USB interface to the
kernel? Any API guide or something like
Hi Bill :)
* Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Swap is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Why put things there if you
still have RAM left? The kernel only puts things in swap when it has no
more RAM _and_ has already deleted big chunks of its disk cache.
Unless he just booted, I
Hi Jerome :)
* jerome lacoste [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
[Sorry for the sensational title]
It catched my attention ;)))
I halted the machine correctly yesterday night. I never dropped the
box in 3 years. Am I just being unlucky? Or could the fact that I am
using Linux on the box
Hi all :)
I don't know if this is a known issue, but usb-storage speed for
'Full speed' devices dropped from 2.6.11.12 (more than 800Kb/s) to
2.6.12 (less than 250Kb/s). The problem still exists in 2.6.13.
The lack of speed seems to affect only the OHCI driver. My test
was done over
Salut Brice :)
* Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Le 01.09.2005 13:36, DervishD a écrit :
The lack of speed seems to affect only the OHCI driver. My test
was done over a PCI USB 2.0 card, ALi chipset, OHCI driver (well
EHCI+OHCI) and using a full speed device capable
Hi Brice, again :)
* Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Are you mounting this storage with vfat and 'sync' option ?
IIRC, sync support for vfat was added around 2.6.12, making
write way slower since it's now really synchron.
That seems to be the problem. Mounting without 'sync'
Hi Mark :)
* Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
the new implementation seems to rewrite the fat on every single
write (that's the reason of the slowdown, probably), and since I'm
not sure about the quality of the flash memory present in the
device, it is very probable that it would wear
Hi Tomasz :)
* Tomasz Torcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:43PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
The problem is that if I plug my USB memory, unplug it and plug
my MP3 player, it gets /dev/sdb this time, not /dev/sda. The mess is
even greater if I plug my card reader
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:22:43 +0200, DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not using hotplug currently so... how can I make the USB
subsystem to assign always the same /dev/sd? entry to my USB Mass
storage devices? [...]
You
Hi Greg :)
* Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:06:16AM +0200, DervishD wrote:
* Tomasz Torcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
That's what udev is for.
I know, but I use a 2.4.x kernel (which I didn't mention in my
original message, sorry O:)), and udev needs
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Which label will a random USB stick have?
GUID, I presume. Ask Andries Brouwer, he hacked on that, IIRC.
Actually msdos has on-disk format for user-settable labels in
the way analoguous to tune2fs -L label. I just do not know if
our
Hi Pete :)
* Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
A global unique ID won't work out to make all USB mass storage devices
appear under a common mountpoint, especially if it is recreated while
formating it.
That is correct, but not what Dervish wanted. He wanted to mount them
on
Hi Willy :)
* Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
That's not possible. sd_mod will assign different devices for
different USB gadgets, and that's my problem in the first case!. If I
plug my USB-whatever, it gets assigned /dev/sda1 (for the first
partition, I mean). If I unplug
Hi all :)
I've noticed that, even if I say NO to initramfs (and even ramdisk
support), the make process wants to GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz by
running the scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh script.
Why is that script run no matter the initramfs support? Looks like
it only depends on
Hi Matthias :)
* Matthias Schniedermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
My averate file size is about 1GB with files from about 400MB to
5000MB I estimate the average error-rate at about one damaged file in
about 10GB of data.
I'm not sure and haven't checked if the files are wrongly written
Hi Matthias :)
* Matthias Schniedermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
* Matthias Schniedermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Today i copied a few files back and checked them against the stored
MD5 sums and 5 files of 86 (each about 700 MB) had errors. So i
copied the 5 files again. 4 of the
Hi Robert :)
* Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
i brought this up a while back but nothing was finalized -- is there
sufficient value in being able to select or deselect entire submenus
of features without having to descend into that submenu first?
Not that my
Hi Nix :)
* Nix [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On 5 Jul 2007, DervishD spake thusly:
Configuring the build of an autotools program is harder than nescensary;
if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere while adding
comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you
Hi Mike :)
* Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Friday 06 July 2007, DervishD wrote:
I really like the spirit of CMake. Of course, it adds a dependency,
but IMHO is much safer to depend on CMake being installed (or Perl, for
that matter) than to depend on a shell. Every
Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote:
* Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't.
Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly
Hi all :)
I have an AMD Athlon64, and according to powernow-k8, it has to
fid's, for 1000MHz and 1800MHz. I don't know if this is correct or if I
should enable ACPI to have more fid's, but my question is not about
this.
What I want to know is if I can choose ondemand governor instead
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Jul 6 2007 22:50, DervishD wrote:
What I want to know is if I can choose ondemand governor instead
of the recommended for AMD64, namely the conservative governor, since
I will be switching between those two frequencies. I
Hi Arjan :)
* Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 23:54 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jul 6 2007 22:50, DervishD wrote:
What I want to know is if I can choose ondemand governor instead
of the recommended for AMD64, namely the conservative governor
Hi all :)
I know, this has been treated on the list before (year 2005) but
without any real solution I'm aware of.
I'm running kernel 2.6.20.14, and I have an ATAPI DVD writer that I
use with an IDE-to-USB adapter, so it appears as an SCSI drive to the
kernel.
Anytime I rip
Hi Stefan :)
* Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I don't know if cdparanoia should be fixed, but certainly the
warning could be issued only if CONFIG_SCSI_VERBOSE is set. This way you
will have the message if something goes wrong and you want more info,
but in cases where
Hi Douglas :)
* Douglas Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I don't know if cdparanoia should be fixed, but certainly the
warning could be issued only if CONFIG_SCSI_VERBOSE is set. This way you
will have the message if something goes wrong and you want more info,
but in cases where
Hi Joerg :)
* Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
It is probably about time that cdparanoia was updated ...
I think the same, but given that it works, Monty probably doesn't
have much motivation to update it. I don't know if the problem resides
in the cdparanoia program
Hi all :))
If I enable CONFIG_FB + CONFIG_FB_RADEON + CONFIG_DRM +
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON, my system hangs badly as soon as I start X Window
System (namely X.Org 7.2, although it happens in older versions too).
I'm not completely sure about the hanging: the system may not be
hung, but I
Hi all :)
I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a
good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...
Thanks a
Hi Eduard :)
* Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has
a good quality
Hi Alan :)
* alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, DervishD wrote:
I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has
Hi Kevin :)
I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device
has a
good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...
My
Hi Bernd :)
* Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
All of the posts fail to address the question here: what is the
correct file system, or does one exist yet, for wear leveling flash
storage. JFFS2 and logfs are nice for MTD, but for better
* Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Monday 11 June 2007 19:42, DervishD wrote:
I know about cheap pendrives that you cannot format even with FAT32, only
with FAT16.
I'm not sure if the price was the reason that they failed with different
filesystems. Some kind of wear leveling
Hi Philipp :))
* Ph. Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
I was just wondering if, apart from the excessive wear, there were
other reasons. One of the reasons I would like to use a good filesystem
for a pendrive is to be able to store file metadata (UID, GID, mode,
etc.) properly, for
Hi Jan :)
* Jan Knutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote:
But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories
with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given
that I won't be writing continuously, wear shouldn't
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
So let us look at the problems and how they interact with filesystems.
1. Write overhead
If a filesystem only writes a small amount of data, typically 512 or
4096 bytes, smartmedia has to erase and write a full block. Most
flashes
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
Any method I can imagine to offer good wear leveling will result in
either a filesystem or at least a simplified one-file-system with the
only file being the block device exported outward. So naturally my
answer to the problem is called
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 14 June 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
Cool, does it mean we have the first Linux filesystem supporting
compression, which can be used on USB-sticks (I don't count old
ext2+compression patches)? :)
Indeed it
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 14 June 2007 22:17:14 +0200, DervishD wrote:
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
2. Wear leveling
Wear leveling happens implicitly by picking a different physical block
from the spares on each write. However, some
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Thu, 14 June 2007 22:20:47 +0200, DervishD wrote:
I'm with you in that. So stop emailing and go working on it XD
:)
No. Seriously. Go! XDD
Now seriously, I will take a look at LogFS from time to time, and if
you
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Fri, 15 June 2007 00:46:46 +0200, DervishD wrote:
When do you think it will be included mainstream?
I am horrible at predictions, doubly so when concerning the future.
Several people believe it is good enough for -mm inclusion
Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Fri, 15 June 2007 18:22:53 +0200, DervishD wrote:
A pity that my digital camera won't want to use LogFS :((
That's quite ok, actually. FAT is perfect for digital cameras. All the
unix file permissions, different owners/groups
Hi all :)
I have a do-it-yourself Linux box, and I'm planning to move to UTF8
(currently I'm using es_ES locale, with latin1 encoding). One of my main
concerns (apart from programs with little or no utf8 support, which I
will have to suffer) is kernel handling, because I only use the
Hi CaT :)
* CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +0200, DervishD wrote:
This said, I know that the console will give me no problems
regarding character representantion (heck, I'm pretty sure that I will
be able to use even the same font I'm using right
Hi Éric :)
* Éric Piel [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit:
06/01/2007 04:20 PM, DervishD wrote/a écrit:
Will the console work as it works now if I can live with latin1
accented characters only?
Just tested here, it _seems_ to work right on the console with Spanish
and French accentuated
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