Re: ext3 fs: no userspace writes == no disk writes ?

Rob van Nieuwkerk
2002-09-20T09:04:50Z

Hi Pádraig,

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> >>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>>There are frequently written areas of an ext3 filesystem - the
> >>>journal, the superblock. Those would wear out pretty quickly.
> >>
> >>CF is -supposed- to wear level.
> >
> > Yes I know.
> >
> > But I haven't been able to find any specs from any CF manufacturer
> > about this mechanism, percentage of spare sectors or number of allowed
> > write-cycles in general.
>
> me either.
>
> Why don't you just mount the fs ro ?
>
> Pádraig

Ehm .., because I need to store data on it ..

greetings,
Rob van Nieuwkerk