Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:15:05 +0100 | From | Padraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: ext3 fs: no userspace writes == no disk writes ? |
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Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: > 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 ..
Ehm, well remount,rw before you store data on it and remount,ro when finished?
Pádraig.
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