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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Jeff Angielski" <jangiels@speakeasy.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux hanging on Xilinx SystemACE
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:40:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528646bc0608161840u62d217cbv7eab091975920c4b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155775917.10357.37.camel@sumo-jaa>

On 8/16/06, Jeff Angielski <jangiels@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 15:48 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Checking partitions is a user-space activity (fsck).  Remove it from
> > your init scripts.  Besides, unless your using a microdrive, your ext2
> > rootfs should be mounted read-only which greatly reduces the need for
> > fsck.  (because FLASH will wear out after too many writes)
>
> The partition check he is referring to is part of a block device driver
> initialization.  It is not fsck.  If he were only so luck to be that far
> in the startup sequence... :)

heh; I grepped the 2.6 kernel tree for "Partition check" and didn't
find anything, and I assumed that it wasn't in 2.4 either.  Therefore
it must be a fsck message...

You know what they say about assuming.

oops

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
grant.likely@secretlab.ca
(403) 399-0195

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-16 21:06 Linux hanging on Xilinx SystemACE Clint Thomas
2006-08-16 21:48 ` Grant Likely
2006-08-17  0:51   ` Jeff Angielski
2006-08-17  1:40     ` Grant Likely [this message]
2006-08-16 22:01 ` Keith J Outwater
2006-08-21 20:45   ` Clint Thomas
2006-08-21 21:16     ` Keith J Outwater
2006-08-16 22:07 ` Jeff Angielski
2006-08-16 23:28   ` Grant Likely

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