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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:04:53 +0100
From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
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To: Rob van Nieuwkerk <robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl>
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Subject: Re: ext3 fs: no userspace writes == no disk writes ?
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Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
>>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>There are frequently written areas of an ext3 filesystem - the
>>>journal, the superblock.  Those would wear out pretty quickly.
>>
>>CF is -supposed- to wear level.
> 
> Yes I know.
> 
> But I haven't been able to find any specs from any CF manufacturer
> about this mechanism, percentage of spare sectors or number of allowed
> write-cycles in general.

me either.

Why don't you just mount the fs ro ?

P?draig

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