[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Feb 8 19:00:14 GMT 2017


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On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Julie Marchant <onpon4 at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 02/08/2017 11:37 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>  64bit somethingorother is off.  i'm giving serious consideration to
>> just putting the OS on a small microsd card and shipping that out.
>>
>> i really wanted to put ubifs on but it's not working well with 3.4
>
> That's not really what I was asking. Regardless of what storage device
> it's on, I just want to make sure the filesystem doesn't use journaling
> (e.g. ext2 rather than ext4) and that the system is set up to not record
> logs of things like warnings and errors. These things will do a number
> on an SD card. (I can't say I know what you're referring to by "64bit
> somethingorother".)

 i'm saying i have to switch off a couple of flags anyway so that
should remind me to remove journalling as well.

l.


> It won't hurt me personally either way because I'm capable of
> reformatting to a non-journaling FS and should be capable of disabling
> logging myself, but it would suck if your computer cards got a
> reputation for chewing through SD cards because of the default settings.

 appreciated.  thx julie.



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