Using ext3 may reduce the life of a CF flash card. However, it will probably increase the lifetime of your data on the card, unless you use vfat or ext2 and are very disciplined about using umount before removing the card.
Jamey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Blot [mailto:emmanuel.blot_at_anciens.enib.fr]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:55 AM
> To: 'Sacha Chua'
> Cc: bootldr_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: RE : [Bootldr] Bootldr & CompactFlash.
>
>
> > Looks like you're looking for
> http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/BootingLinuxFromCF =)
>
> Thanks a lot. That's exactly what I was looking for.
>
> BTW: is is safe to have an Ext3 filesystem on a CF device ?
> Flash ROM are supposed to have an upper limit for writting data, and
> Ext3 may use intensive write access (for the Journal), therefore
> reducing the life of the CF device.
> [I don't know how many writes a CF can cope with...]
>
> Manu
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Received on Mon Apr 29 2002 - 14:04:02 EDT
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