You should also consider ram disk, mounting all your file system readonly and not use swap. If you do that your cheap flash can last many years.
-fred- On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Matt Ryanczak wrote: > The quality of CF cards varies greatly. I suggest trying another card. > Industrial grade cards from sandisk, emphase or similar have the highest > write cycle count. > > Also look in to non-journaled file systems or disable journaling on your > fs of choice to increase life. Disabling atime (using relatime or > noatime) can help too. Ofcourse the effects of all of this depends on > the specific cards wear leveling implementation (if it has one) and > over-all quality. > > I've had good luck with sandisk industrial or professional grade CF > cards. Some of which have run for years with out problems. > > ~Matt > > On 8/23/11 9:01 AM, Embedding Linux wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We got our net5501 up and running on Gentoo Linux, with a few troubles >> here and there. >> >> But we are getting filesystem corruption errors quite quickly, even >> without significant fs activity. Error is usually >> "htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory #xxxx", but we begin to >> get "ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced xxxx" errors too. >> >> The CF card has been taken off the net5501, fsck-ed (lots of FS >> problems), put back in the net5501 and booted again... Half a day later, >> the errors do creep back. >> >> We have (not yet) tried changing the CF card. >> >> We're using an ext3 filesystem on the CF card. Is it a good choice ? Do >> anyone has some idea as to what could cause those errors, and how to get >> rid of them ? >> >> Tia, > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
