fedora on a flash drive

Unknown jon at jonshouse.co.uk
Tue Mar 8 09:08:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:18 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 03:23:24PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > I've actually seen quite a few appliances that are really custom-built
> > PCs running Linux and using normal HDDs. I just wonder what they're
> > doing to assure it won't get stuck in fsck, or worse, if the power
> > fails.

Its worth remembering that if you O/S and application partition is read
only then it shouldn't degrade. The product I work on just checks the
partition with the data stored in it, if the partition fails fsck then
the machine simply reformats it and reboots !

Jon






More information about the devel mailing list