[uClibc]mke2fs build against uClibc

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Sat Aug 18 15:13:16 UTC 2001


On Sat Aug 18, 2001 at 07:50:41AM -0700, Luke wrote:
> sensor connected to one of its 2 serial ports.  It will have a reliable,
> continuous power supply and every few months I want to go physically to
> the device and plug a serial line into the other serial port and retrieve
> the data.  I want the data to be stored on a ramdisk (seems like the
> best/only? solution given my hardware) so it needs to be a read/write fs
> (cramfs is read only right?)  I was reading a ramdisk howto and it (albeit
> it was a few years old) recommened mke2fs for the ramdisk.

Why not use jffs?  This way, your writes go directly to flash, and 
(heaven forbid) should your system lose power, you will not lose 2
months of data...

 -Erik

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