RE: [iPAQ] ext2 on flash

From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.a.t.crl.dec.com>
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 07:48:48 EDT

>
> would mounting /dev/flash6 with
>
> mount -t ext2 -o noatime /dev/flash6 /usr/local
>
> be kinder on the flash?
>

That would be much better. The superblock still gets modified when you
unmount the filesystem unless it was mounted read-only, even if no files or
atimes were modified. Is there any way to avoid that?

-Jamey
Received on Fri Sep 15 04:46:17 2000

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