For those who, like me, sometimes need a quick refresher read on linux flash, I always liked this article and its links:<br><br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-flash-filesystems/</a><br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>KG<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:52 PM, John Watlington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
The classic trigger for corruption problems (especially w. SD cards)<br>
is sudden power off events. I believe we now have the ability<br>
to tell the EC to auto-power on the laptop, so you can just plug it<br>
into a lamp timer set to cycle on/off every ten minutes or so<br>
and let it run...<br>
<br>
When you say that the entire 11.2.0 development cycle<br>
was done with ext4, was that released and abused extensively ?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
wad<br>
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:<br>
<br>
> A quick heads up -- we've seen Jon Nettleton hit some disk corruption<br>
> repeatedly on his development/test machine. Diagnosis of the prob led<br>
> us to <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11210" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11210</a> (erase-blocks doesn't work<br>
> with Toshiba eMMC devices - which is what we have on SKU 198 -<br>
> membrane kb units) but it is unclear whether that is the issue.<br>
><br>
> This is one of our current risks -- it is a concern because we need to<br>
> know real soon whether this is a hw issue (related to the eMMC parts)<br>
> or not. We have hit corruption issues with ext4 in the past (#9513)<br>
> and fell back to ext3. It is not clear however that ext4 is suspect:<br>
> the whole 11.2.0 dev cycle was done under ext4 and no disk corruption<br>
> incidents were reported AFAIK.<br>
><br>
> From IRC discussion -- he seemed to hit it while:<br>
> - developing, compiling,<br>
> - using an ext SD card<br>
> - running a patched kernel and xorg<br>
> - presumably crashing a lot<br>
><br>
> We need to consider action around this<br>
><br>
> - try to force the error -- I'll set up a test rig for this, applying<br>
> unclean shutdowns on a couple of SKU198 units<br>
> - keep our eyes open for disk corruption reports, specially in builds<br>
> including the new gfx code<br>
> - potentially switch back to ext3 in OOB<br>
><br>
> It is very hard to prove a negative - tracking this at<br>
> <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11220" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11220</a><br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> m<br>
> --<br>
> <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- Software Architect - OLPC<br>
> - ask interesting questions<br>
> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first<br>
> - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a><br>
><br>
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