[OLPC-devel] Booting from uncleanly dismounted flash key.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Aug 26 07:03:01 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 06:01 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> Hmmm.. I wonder if busybox has a fsck in it already?  We could hack
> that in and then just call fsck /dev/sda1 on the device before a mount
> attempt. 

Or just use ext2 for /boot -- ext3 is going to kill a USB stick quickly
anyway, and if you pull power on them at random times they're going to
die in ways that a journalling file system won't help with.

-- 
dwmw2




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