Re: Snapshots in tmpfs

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:45:32AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:20:18PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > > > Is CHFS really suitable for CompactFlash?  Is LFS even usable?
>  > > 
>  > > No 
>  > 
>  > I thought the whole point of chfs was to be able to operate on raw
>  > flash devices that don't have their own flash translation layer.
> 
> Oh, my mistake, since there was concern about filesystem type I
> thought you were talking about raw flash, but apparently CompactFlash
> is not raw flash, same as USB sticks aren't.

OTOH I've seen a CF card with completely trashed contents.
Data in all the wrong sectors.
I suspect it had power removed in the middle of someinternal action.

        David

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