[Voyage-linux] ext3

[Jeff Ramin]

Gustin Johnson wrote:
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> Jeff Ramin wrote:
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>> Anybody using ext3 on their CF cards? Does it make sense
>> to use a journaling filesystem on an ALIX board, since there
>> may be a lot of syncing between tempfs filesystems and
>> the physical storage?
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> I don't bother with ext3 since it drastically reduces the lifetime of
> the CF card.

Can you explain why this would be?

>   Also, log files and the like are not written to disk so
> there is not as much IO as you might think.
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It's my application that needs to sync filesystems on
a regular basis; I wasn't referring to the OS.