Re: [tlug] Linux appliance deal

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz@example.com>]

Quoting Romeo Theriault at 08/11/2010-23:17:17(+0900):
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 20:38, Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Now I just need to figure out the best way to install Linux on a CF
> > card.  A quick search suggests that no swap partition and logging to
> > tmpfs are advisable.  Some even recommend mounting the CF as read-only.
> >
> 
> Other good ideas in the area of minimizing writes to the CF card are to
> mount with the "noatime" option and also use a non-journaling filesystem
> such as ext2.

If you are not going for read only root you may want to consider ext4
over ext2. It is supposed to write less if you make it without a
journal.

mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal

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