Re: ext3 fs: no userspace writes == no disk writes ?

[Padraig Brady]

Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Alan,
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:04, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>There are frequently written areas of an ext3 filesystem - the
>>>>>journal, the superblock.  Those would wear out pretty quickly.
>>>>
>>>>CF is -supposed- to wear level.
>>>
>>>Yes I know.
>>>
>>>But I haven't been able to find any specs from any CF manufacturer
>>>about this mechanism, percentage of spare sectors or number of allowed
>>>write-cycles in general.
>>
>>me either.
>>
>>Why don't you just mount the fs ro ?
>>
>>Pádraig
> 
> 
> Ehm .., because I need to store data on it ..

Ehm, well remount,rw before you store data on it
and remount,ro when finished?

Pádraig.