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From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: how to select a rootfs for embedded linux based hardisk?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:43:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060301124341.GM24493@deprecation.cyrius.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250603010418s6f778c25s799d79cee2b79333@mail.gmail.com>

* zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> [2006-03-01 20:18]:
> i want to port the linux to our board based hardisk with
> mips arch. i do not find too much file sytem for rootfs on hardisk
> besides ext2/ext3.
> but it seems ext2/ext3 is not suitable for embedded system.
> does someone have idea or experience with these products?

How large is your hard drive exactly and is it a real IDE hard drive
or some kind of flash?  If the disk/flash is very small, ext3 may be a
bad choice since it's a journalling file system which means that a)
it'll take up quite a significant portion of space on a small drive
and b) it'll write to the same sectors all the time, which will kill
the flash in no time.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-01 12:18 how to select a rootfs for embedded linux based hardisk? zhuzhenhua
2006-03-01 12:43 ` Martin Michlmayr [this message]
2006-03-02  0:55   ` zhuzhenhua
2006-03-02  0:59     ` Martin Michlmayr

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