On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 20:28, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> You shouldn't use ext3, but ext2 instead. According to a prior posting
> on a handhelds.org mailing list, the ext3 journal is at a fixed location
> on the device. So, you'll make a lot of writes on the same physical
> location and will wear off your CF card within a few days or weeks....
That depends on how the CF card is done internally. They might have some
clever algoritm built in that automatically rotates sectors to avoid
wear-out. I think this also needed very badly for the DOS FAT fs that is
ont hem by default.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any documentation on that. Maybe it is
the old story of the goods brands having it and the bad ones (the very
cheap for example) don't.
Bas.
Received on Mon May 03 09:22:13 2004
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