Re: [Server-devel] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread James Cameron
No, it won't help. 1. reading data an SD card (or eMMC, or USB flash drives) does cause writes internal to the card, and does reduce life, 2. there's no such flag to set in an MBR partition table, Perhaps you mean a write protect switch on the card? This is a plastic slide, sensed by a

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread Adam Holt
A Custom_Content folder is eventually demanded by almost every IIAB-like deployment. The reason is that every local school / librarian quite naturally wants a Non-Bureaucratic process, to add their own language/videos/curriculum, copying their own file-tree onto the SD card, using their own

Re: [Server-devel] [UKids] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread Adam Holt
Great points all around. To give a genuine voice to innovative but non-technical grassroots teachers, I'd very much advocate for a 1GB exFAT/NTFS/FAT32 partition (or whatever, let's say 1% of the 64GB or 128GB or 256GB SD card) to give streets-is-talkin local educators authentic voice, alongside

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 09:12:34PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: Towards this quite universal demand, an exFAT partition seems much better than FAT32, as exFAT works with most all recent Windows and Mac machines, without filename limitations.  (Not unrelated to exFAT being the modern SD Card

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:24:23PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: On balance, SD Card industry standard exFAT seems (to me) more future-proof for a hassle-free grassroots content partition over coming years, [...] If you're able to control the desktops and laptops that will be used to add or remove