From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11vooW-00050m-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:39:56 +0000 Received: from mail1.danielind.com ([12.19.96.6]) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11vooU-00050g-00 for mtd@imladris.mvhi.com; Wed, 08 Dec 1999 21:39:54 +0000 Message-ID: <384ED079.B3762EBD@danielind.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 15:41:13 -0600 From: Vipin Malik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MTD Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: power down]] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@imladris.demon.co.uk List-ID: David Woodhouse wrote: > > vmalik@danielind.com said: > > Come on guys (and gals). Am I championing a lost > > cause here? Have we given up on power down reliability of nonvolatile > > data in embedded systems under Linux? > > Power down reliability of such data is an absolute must. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! > I expect embedded > systems using NFTL and ext3 to be absolutely reliable even if the plug is > pulled half-way through a write. > > This means we end up with two separate journalling / logging mechanisms - one > at the block device level (ext3) and one at the flash media level (NFTL). As I > said - ideally, we ditch that in the end and have a journalling/log-structured > filesystem directly on the flash media. > > > Is anyone interested in this!? Lurkers please respond. How many people > > read this list anyway? > > infradead /var/lib/majordomo/lists $ wc -l mtd > 64 mtd Thanks. I guess that means that 64 people receive this list. > > -- > dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org