Disk layout for XO-1.5

Albert Cahalan acahalan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 01:52:40 EDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Martin
Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Albert Cahalan<acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> First partition: FAT16 with 4 KB clusters
>> Second partition: LVM with ext4
>
> Gentlemen, before LVM can be considered, we need
>
>  - fs resize that is fail-safe in the face of powerloss, for the fs
> types we plan to use.
>
>  - lvm resize that is fail-safe in the face of powerloss

Unless you have a bug number, this is FUD. Where is
the bug number?

BTW, note that the flash disk itself is not certain to be
fail-safe in the face of powerloss. Neither the firmware
nor the hardware is supplied with proof of correctness.
Problems in similar hardware are not uncommon.



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