Re: [Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:31:27AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > On 08/09/2013 06:17 AM, James Cameron wrote: > >I have never been happy with using the > >XO-1 SD card slot. > > I have been using SD cards in the XO-1 SD card slot for more than > five years now. Although I have experienced occas

Re: [Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread John Watlington
Just to clarify a comment that James made: On XO-1, the qualification of the SD card interface was done by Quanta. They seemed to think it worked fine. When I started doing extensive testing of SD cards in preparation for using them in XO-1.5, I discovered that some XO-1s did not have a reliabl

Re: [Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
On 08/09/2013 06:17 AM, James Cameron wrote: I have never been happy with using the XO-1 SD card slot. I have been using SD cards in the XO-1 SD card slot for more than five years now. Although I have experienced occasions of SD card corruption, they have been so rare as to not affect what I

Re: [Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 05:53:06AM -0400, George Hunt wrote: > The motherboard flash on an XO1 is 1GB. The kernel, rootfs, provided > by OLPC Boston for the XO1 occupies 745MB. The server software > (XSCE) we have been adding on top of the OS occupies about > 1.3GB.  So obviously an additional SD c

[Server-devel] Root fs on XO1

2013-08-09 Thread George Hunt
Hi Jerry, et al, The motherboard flash on an XO1 is 1GB. The kernel, rootfs, provided by OLPC Boston for the XO1 occupies 745MB. The server software (XSCE) we have been adding on top of the OS occupies about 1.3GB. So obviously an additional SD card is required. My first approach has been to sta