Just to chime in, as has been already noted the max file size on a FAT32
system is 4GB. Some of the files we deal with are much larger than that.
Ex. the Zim files for TED talks etc. are 8GB+ in size. Now we could always
break them into smaller chunks, but that is another step.
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Anish
On Mon,
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:24:23PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> On balance, SD Card industry standard exFAT seems (to me) more
> future-proof for a hassle-free "grassroots content" partition over
> coming years,
> [...]
If you're able to control the desktops and laptops that will be used
to add or re
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:57 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> LFN (long filename) support is present in all the operating systems
> you've mentioned, and works fine with FAT32.
>
Thanks for the correction. FAT32 is indeed about as universal/tolerable of
a standard as possible in 2015. But might not
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 09:12:34PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> Towards this quite universal demand, an exFAT partition seems much
> better than FAT32, as exFAT works with most all recent Windows and
> Mac machines, without filename limitations. (Not unrelated to exFAT
> being the modern SD Card indu
A "Custom_Content" folder is eventually demanded by almost every IIAB-like
deployment.
The reason is that every local school / librarian quite naturally wants a
Non-Bureaucratic process, to add their own language/videos/curriculum,
copying their own file-tree onto the SD card, using their own Wind
No, it won't help.
1. reading data an SD card (or eMMC, or USB flash drives) does cause
writes internal to the card, and does reduce life,
2. there's no such flag to set in an MBR partition table,
Perhaps you mean a write protect switch on the card? This is a
plastic slide, sensed by a sw
James,
Would it help to mark the content partition(s) as read only?
Sameer
On Aug 16, 2015 5:13 PM, "James Cameron" wrote:
> Thanks, interesting questions.
>
> No, ext4 is not a slow journaled filesystem, and no, there are no
> obvious problems on SD when using ext4 given your use case. But it
