From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from securedesign.net ([216.99.200.242] helo=firewall.sdesign.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15CBTQ-0003BM-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:42:37 +0100 Message-ID: <005a01c0f86a$9abbe1c0$160aa8c0@gumby> From: "Stephen Herzog" To: Cc: "qwerty t" References: <20010615115134.12572.qmail@web3203.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Input/Output Errors Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:50:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Greetings, I tried using ext2 on an 8M DoC 2000 however had problems related to corrupting the entire file system if the partition was not unmounted correctly from read/write mode.=20 We switched to a minix file system from ext2 to save space=20 and make things a bit more stable, however the best thing to do is keep the partition mounted read-only except=20 when doing os updates. =20 The problems we were having were not related to the MTD=20 layer however. =20 Steve on Friday June 15, qwerty172@yahoo.com wrote: > I have a 16 M DoC 2000. I have formated it as an ext2 > partition, and have copied 10M in various directories. > During boot MTD support says that it found unformated > sectors and formats them.=20 > ... > Has anyone seen this before? Has anyone used ext2 as > filesystem.