On 25.04.2008, at 04:05, Michael Stone wrote: > Over the last few weeks, I've spent a fair bit of time producing > several > essay drafts and transcriptions of IRC conversations. Something you > may > not have known is that I did so on top of olpcfs [1,2]. Yesterday, 1cc > experienced a power failure which briefly took down my working > machine. > Today, with some trepidation, I remounted my olpcfs and was pleased to > discover that my data were intact. > > While I cannot claim to have stressed olpcfs in any serious fashion, I > am happy to report that it is suitable for capturing versions of > simple > plain-text essays and that it maintained its data integrity through at > least one hard power failure. On the basis of this experience, I > encourage others to download it, follow the instructions, and give > it a > whirl: > > git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/cscott/olpcfs1 > cat olpcfs1/README > > Michael > > [1]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpcfs > [2]: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/olpcfs1
This is not a technical assessment, but I like the olpcfs idea. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel