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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:07:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Wade <mwade@cdc.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Mounting and Corruption Rehashed 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10004041700160.22626-100000@server2>
In-Reply-To: <200004042058.OAA71025@harmony.village.org>

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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> We've had similar corruptions on DiskOnChip w/o the ro -> rw -> ro
> junk :-(.

Interesting...  Any idea if it was software or hardware related?  Any
details?  How are you protecting yourself from corruption? =)

> I don't think it would.  However, I don't think that we can enable
> soft updates in our product w/o sending money to Kirk.  And even if we
> didn't need to, the thing is RO for 99.9999% of the time so it
> wouldn't be worth it to include in our kernels in these embedded
> things.

I forgot about the soft update license, oh well...  Perhaps what really is
needed is a minimal flash file system for people like myself who need to
be able to update the flash for configuration data.  Currently I have a
separate partition on flash for RW...

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Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net)
Director of Systems Administration
CDC Internet, Inc.



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