[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

[Julie Marchant]

> So what happens on a violent poweroff? Just lose data?

Sure, if you happened to be in the middle of writing to the card, but this isn't that big of a deal really. People routinely take this risk with USB flash drives and SD cards.

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On Feb 9, 2017 6:11 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:03:06AM -0500, Julie Marchant wrote:
> > On 02/09/17 01:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > >  do you know the mkfs.ext4 commands needed or the ext2flags command?
> > 
> > No, but just using an ext2 filesystem instead should suffice (since ext2
> > doesn't support journaling). That's the standard advice for the OpenPandora.
>
> So what happens on a violent poweroff? Just lose data?
>
> There's also f2fs. But you do need a recent enough kernel to use it. The
> versions from some older kernels may eat some files occasionally.
>
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