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Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] file system question
From: Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask () web ! de>
Date: 2010-03-30 8:40:25
Message-ID: 20100330084025.GA18297 () ask ! eoa ! intra
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 06:42:15PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'm porting the software for an embedded medical device from DOS to
> Linux and am wondering which file systems are appropriate and which are
> not. The device's mass storage is a Disk-on-Module solid state flash
> drive. Data is presently written at approx 100 bytes every 30 seconds
> but that might change to 100 bytes every second. The device has a
> watchdog (recently activated) and during today's session it was
> triggered and wiped out my file system.
>
> Anybody have recommendations on which file system to use and the
> appropriate settings?
>
> Anybody have suggested readings so I can educate myself?
First I would read about Wear Levelling (Wikipedia). Maybe your device already
implements TrueFFS or ExtremeFFS with low-level wear levelling, so it might be
enough to just use any other file system upon. Then I would choose a simple
ext2 file system, though I can't tell the wear levelling really works. Are
there methods to debug that?
I think the best choose for you might be a JFFS2 Filesystem. Or just choose one
from "Flash file system" in Wikipedia.
bye ingo
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