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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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15 years ago

Hmmm.

Do you really believe their wording means that you can switch off power directly after writing a sector and you can be sure that this sector and all other data is safe ?

It obviously is not possible to do internal wear leveling without consuming any power and time. So if you switch off power shortly after a write, the device will need to react in some way, provided it can live for a short time on internal capacitators. Maybe it can abort the wear leveling in some decent state.

-Michael