Vic Berdin ha scritto: > Hi Giovani, > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Giovanni Franza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:39 PM >>To: Vic Berdin >>Subject: Re: [leaf-user] LEAF use of M$ technology: FAT fs >> >> >>Vic Berdin ha scritto: >> >>>Hi everyone, >>> >>>Just a bit concerned. Look here: >>>http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp >>>However, we have this to keep our hopes up: >>>http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Reexam.htm >>>Any ideas for LEAF floppies (at least) in case M$ gets their patent > > claim? > >>>This is going to be a real headache for embedded solutions using CFs and >>>digtal >>>cam manufacturers, that's for sure. >>> >> >>I was concerned, too. So I used the documentation to use GRUB joined to >>the documentation to use USB stick joined to some help to use ext2 >>filesystem and, putting all together, the thing worked, with some >>limitations. >>I'm not sure that this can be done on a floppy, but I think that this >>can be done on a CF. >>If anybody is interested, the informations to use GRUB and USB are on >>the leaf project site (as viewed in previous postings) and, to use ext2, >>the only need is to add ext2.o in /boot/lib/modules and list it in >>/boot/etc/modules that (both) belongs to initrd.lrp. >> >>I hope that this can be useful, >> >>Giovanni Franza > > > IMHO, I do not think ext2 will cut it for production use with respect to > data integrity. Maybe ext3 or reiserfs (or xfs?) on CFs. But what about > for floppies? Ouch! Even for CFs, the mentioned fs may not prove to be > efficient at all due to space consumed by journalling (if you have a > large footprint). > I'm currently testing ext3 + cramfs on CF. Seems ok... but still in > testing stage. Can anyone really vouch for ext3 inegrity/stability on CF? > If ever M$ gets it, will really miss the LEAF floppy approach though :o(. > > Regards, > Vic > Well done. For integrity ext3 is good. >From my personal point of view the USB, or the CF, or the floppy are used ONLY for startup and then are offiline so I haven't integrity issues. For logging I prefer to do stealth logging on a different PC without an IP address. For now I do not logging outside ramdisk. Only a word about floppy: when I was using my first two (lrp) firewalls, after a year, I needed to reboot them and the floppy doesn't work at all (I had, of course, my backup so there is not a problem). After a certain number of test I discovered that floppy sucks and I've started to test CFs that performed very well so I adopted CF, first on LRP and then on Leaf Bering 1.1 stable. On the same I tested USB that is more versatile (for example we can protect it with a switch in order to avoid intentional corruption) but also have some problems (for example large USB devices are handled different from different PC so GRUB stop with a geometry error).
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