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To: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
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Subject: Re: ext3 fs: no userspace writes == no disk writes ? 
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Hi P?draig,

P?draig Brady wrote:
> 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

Ehm .., because I need to store data on it ..

	greetings,
	Rob van Nieuwkerk
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