gjournal on compact flash
Nikos Vassiliadis
nvass9573 at gmx.com
Thu Jan 28 16:42:39 UTC 2010
Hi,
I am using a 40MB journal on a 500MB compact flash.
Would that be sane, or I am causing more harm than
good?
My concerns are:
1) wear leveling. The journal is on specific part
of the "disk" writing again and again. That
should be handled by the CF itself. Though
I am not sure it does a good job???
2) I do care about ungraceful power cycles and I've seen
posts on the net, mentioning:
> More, If
> you interrupt power at arbitrary times while the device is writing,
> you can lose the integrity of the file system being modified. The loss
> is not limited to the 512 byte sector being modified, as it generally
> is with rotating disks; you can lose an entire erase block, maybe 64K
> at once.
I guess the above comment renders the use
of a journaling filesystem useless. But, doing
some naive tests, power cycling the machine
while writing and checksumming the data after
fsck in preen mode, revealed no error.
Thanks in advance for any insights, Nikos
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