On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sascha Silbe<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > >>> Some discussion on irc of possible solutions [to ext3 problems]: >> >> We should be using ext2, not ext3, in the future so that we don't >> have a journal to corrupt. >
Sorry that should say Datastore, not journal, as journal referred to the user interface to the Datastore. Dave > That's no solution. You'll just corrupt the rest of the filesystem instead, > with no information about what parts of the filesystem might be damaged. > For simple "media goes offline" / power outage cases, journal=data should be > enough to preserve the integrity of the device. For altered-data cases (that > I sure hope won't happen with regular USB sticks!), you'll need something > that adds redundancy, i.e. some kind of single-device RAID5. I don't know of > anything in the Linux kernel that would provide this kind of thing (for > regular block devices, not raw NAND access). > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKeDONAAoJELpz82VMF3DaoRoIAJU2H/tBfPYTquLRa23B8ZN5 > jrFQohJiW9hOmVHxJkt+ViZIM7Hz1bNKSk1XyT5W6pkKVScJQByozoBqNUo1KmpI > U2SEUWvDmyNfoU0YRN6h9Rh/L/E5jOotz31/WOxmt/JmhGHd1/ZuF7ZQotvndyhu > 511mTl+tE9IQZVehjDMY9Q/VGmLRV7s7s2vQzAK4qEs+s7AMPM6Bmab9aoA/5LFa > imbWmVRdqu08xDocBp7bS/s67ZWm/U72Y2QeJDkmBiYpCA6ljMZu9xgfVEOFps9A > 69lYtcClrKY6sFvPqy/242oidrZmoeM/VlJThU2pR8q1Req1UmgIncssqiqjfzs= > =VyQl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Dave Bauer [email protected] http://www.solutiongrove.com _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
