From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: Petter Larsen <pla@morecom.no>
Cc: ext3 <ext3-users@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mode data=journal in ext3. Is it safe to use?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:22:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873c4g1qh2.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088345837.5288.1.camel@pla.lokal.lan> (Petter Larsen's message of "Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:17:17 +0200")
On 28 Jun 2004, Petter Larsen wrote:
>>> We are using ext3 on a compact flash disk in an embedded device. So we
>>> are not using RAID systems.
>>
>> Watch out - even with the internal wear leveling the CF disk will do,
>> ext3 is still a pretty heavy filesystem to use there.
>
> Well, which filesystem would you then used for read-write on this CF?
My recommendation would be to look at running your system out of memory,
and writing back to flash on a scheduled basis, and at shutdown.
That way the write load is minimized, but you still have a persistent
store.
Daniel
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <40FB8221D224C44393B0549DDB7A5CE83E31B1@tor.lokal.lan>
2004-06-15 18:09 ` mode data=journal in ext3. Is it safe to use? Petter Larsen
2004-06-15 18:20 ` Eugene Crosser
2004-06-17 8:36 ` Petter Larsen
2004-06-16 7:34 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-06-17 8:27 ` Petter Larsen
2004-06-17 17:09 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-06-18 9:41 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-18 10:15 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-06-18 11:30 ` Paulo Marques
2004-06-18 12:05 ` Oleg Drokin
2004-06-21 17:42 ` mode data=journal in ext3. Is it safe to use? Conclusion Petter Larsen
2004-06-19 19:16 ` mode data=journal in ext3. Is it safe to use? Bernd Eckenfels
2004-06-16 15:49 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 0:51 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-06-17 3:02 ` Tim Connors
2004-06-17 5:35 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-17 10:08 ` Dave Jones
2004-06-17 16:55 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-17 8:29 ` Petter Larsen
2004-06-17 19:30 ` Daniel Egger
[not found] ` <87wu26mto2.fsf@enki.rimspace.net>
2004-06-27 14:17 ` Petter Larsen
2004-06-28 0:22 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
[not found] ` <1805.216.148.213.196.1087426691.squirrel@www.code-visions.com>
2004-06-17 11:23 ` Petter Larsen
2004-06-17 16:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-17 14:56 Ken Ryan
2004-06-17 16:06 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 17:20 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-17 19:15 ` Ken Ryan
2004-06-18 6:18 ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-17 19:43 ` Daniel Egger
2004-06-17 19:59 ` Ken Ryan
2004-06-19 14:49 ` Petter Larsen
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