On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:13:41PM -0700, Ryan Bedwell wrote:
> that needs to be able to survive a power failure (i.e. can't just throw it
> in RAMdisk), but I'm wondering if it compromizes the compressed root
> filesystem on the flash disk.
I use a simple "config-file" for this purpose. This file is just a very
small partition of my flash disk which is read and written with the
possibility of power failure in mind (eg. /dev/hda2).
If the config values I read from there are bad, I fall back to defaults.
Another posibility to write such values in a more save way is to write them
twice. If reading you just need to compare the two values and if they are
different there has been a power failure during writing.
Regards
Sven
P.S.: / is mounted ro of course
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