From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nwd3G-0002jX-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:08:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD499E0D49 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.hosting.lv (mail.hosting.lv [213.21.217.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F911E09F8 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saustari.wifi.basnet.lv ([87.246.143.137] helo=hal9000.mebius.lv) by mail.hosting.lv with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1NwcQb-000C1h-PC; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:28:25 +0300 Message-ID: <4BB20A80.7080106@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:28:16 +0300 From: Arkadi Shishlov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] file system question References: <20100329184215.539920eb@osage.osagesoftware.com> <4BB1FC9B.9070804@hiramoto.org> In-Reply-To: <4BB1FC9B.9070804@hiramoto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6bafaa5d-c906-4134-966f-84cd10350e09 X-Archives-Hash: 3db8073836ce2e4b5fdfe86e28618970 On 03/30/10 16:28, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > On 03/30/2010 12:42 AM, David Relson wrote: >> I'm porting the software for an embedded medical device from DOS to >> Linux and am wondering which file systems are appropriate and which are >> not. The device's mass storage is a Disk-on-Module solid state flash > > 1. Mount read only a partition that contains the main system, to ensure > you can always boot and to avoid damage to the systems file Depending on how you want to service (or not) you device root fs, consider using at SquashFS for that.