From: Sean L. <se...@cs...> - 2005-04-23 23:37:45
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We're in the situation where we often need to yank power on the gumstix without issuing a halt. At present we'd decided to install ext2fs on the MMC cards, but without an fsck-like program, we're getting corruption on them on occasion. Any suggestions about what to do in this situation? Is there a program we can run? Should we use FAT instead -- or would that not provide any additional robustness? Etc. Sean |
From: Craig R H. <cr...@gu...> - 2005-04-25 19:18:27
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FAT is probably more fragile than ext2 wrt power interruption mid-write. You might want to use a journalled FS instead, like ext3 C Sean Luke wrote: SL> We're in the situation where we often need to yank power on the gumstix SL> without issuing a halt. At present we'd decided to install ext2fs on the SL> MMC cards, but without an fsck-like program, we're getting corruption on SL> them on occasion. Any suggestions about what to do in this situation? Is SL> there a program we can run? Should we use FAT instead -- or would that not SL> provide any additional robustness? Etc. |