On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:14 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:31:55PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Q1: Do you think it's too crazy a project to fly? :-) > > I've seen similar but done different ways. The init on the CF bootstraps the > system by running sanity checks on the disk. It then does one of two things > > #1 If the sanity check passes, chroots (it was pre the root swivel stuff) > and execs /sbin/init. > > #2 If it fails, it rebuilds the disk environment from the flash and puts > everything there. Hah! That's exactly what i was thinking! :-) > Decent CF cards use wear levelling (its actually log structured internally). > If you buy your CF from Micron (ie crucical) it comes with a lifetime > warranty so it's their problem 8) But how about all those scary stories about CF (un)reliability that i keep hearing? I mean, let's accept that CF may fail after X power failures. But a normal HDD can also fail due to mechanical shocks, etc. Just using a normal HDD would be much simpler. OTOH, maybe it's just me, but i've had so many issues with fsck... (probably i'm too old and i keep remembering bad stuff since the days of Ext2) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
