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Hi, |
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A few notes about compact flash, I recently made a research about cflash |
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products. |
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The main safety in compact flash products is in the availability of the wear |
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leveling function (secure mode) |
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low cost cflash do not include this capability , for this reason , you will |
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need to use jffs2 , to allow sector repartition over the disk. |
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However more robust products (sandisk / lexar) include the wear leveling |
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function in the card and it is completely transparent from the user, you use |
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it as a single normal ide disk. |
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Furthermore, lifetime and throuput bandwidth of these products is faster than |
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common camera cflash. |
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If interested in I could give you more details on how to check if your cflash |
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card supports wear leveling . |
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Best Regards |
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Steph |
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> |
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> One solution here for him could be to use squashfs + jffs2. |
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> I wont explain how to do that. But it's probably worth his time to |
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> research it. The openwrt project is making use of this type of setup now |
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> to make failsafe systems that live on flash. http://openwrt.org |
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> > > Furthermore , the system may stay in a readonly partition , but we have |
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> > > to plug our application in this system that should be setted up on a |
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> > > separate partition because we should be able to send updates for it . |
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> > > and the user may load save files on it . |
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> > > |
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> > > What are the gentoo tools to allow that ? |
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> |
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> sys-fs/squashfs-tools-2.0_p2 |
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> sys-fs/mtd-20040825 |
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