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15 years ago

e2fsck slows boot

Hi, I'm working with the Cyclone II Dev board and a Compact Flash (ext3 formatted - journalling). We use ext3 because I am writing data to a file on the CF and when we lose power and we reboo...
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@mschnell You can use industrial compact flash cards that don't have this low level integrity loss problem. As an example, we use the cards from STEC that are guaranteed not to become in an unusable state after a power loss. Of course they are a lot more expensive than the ones you can find in supermarkets

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Can you post the specs that cover the said problem ?

-Michael