openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I'm working on a embedded project and have been cycling through some tradeoffs wrt using cf cards as disks. I know these devices support wear-leveling, but I'm not sure how this could work w

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Alexander Hall
Andrew Atrens wrote: ... And finally one last question that applies to both FFS and LFS - file access/creation/modification metadata updates. Specifically I'm thinking of atime's. Is there any way to switch off atime updates ? They don't add much value for me, and I'm worried they might unduly ag

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Atrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Hall wrote: > Andrew Atrens wrote: > >> ... >> And finally one last question that applies to both FFS and LFS - file >> access/creation/modification metadata updates. Specifically I'm thinking >> of atime's. Is there any way to switch off at

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/17/06, Andrew Atrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [a little paranoid, are we?] > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? no, it's a disaster.

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-17 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:43:15PM -0500, Andrew Atrens wrote: >> man mount >> look for noatime >Got it, thanks :) >Interesting I hadn't considered it before, huh, I wonder why it isn't the >default, >historical reasons I suppose. I guess, because you lose functionality over it. Yes,

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Bender
> > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? > > no, it's a disaster. > Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? -N

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Nick Bender wrote: >> > Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? >> no, it's a disaster. >Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing >McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? Different project focuses it seems.

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:48:59AM -0500, Nick Bender wrote: > Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing > McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? I just won't say that the number of people working on it is inversely proportional to the number of people