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On Sunday 08 January 2012 12:59:16 Kfir Lavi wrote: |
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> I'll need to crash proof a Gentoo system from electricity cutoffs. |
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> I have a system with 8GB of flash drive. |
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> I created a small system ~100mb as the target system. |
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> I thought of creating 5 200mb paratitions of raid1. So 5 will be mirrored. |
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> What do you think of this solution? |
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> Do you have more ideas how to keep the system intact ? |
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> I'm creating ext4 partitions, but would like to hear some opinions on that |
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> fileystem. |
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what is your flash tech exactly ? it's a USB thumb drive ? |
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the best way to avoid problems is: |
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- use read-only mounts wherever possible |
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- use tmpfs for all scratch space you don't care about (many logs fall into |
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this category with embedded devices) |
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- for the few places you do write to disk, make sure to fdatasync() |
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-mike |