OO Database question with FLASH drive
Sebastián Sastre
ssastre at seaswork.com.ar
Fri Nov 17 12:30:44 UTC 2006
Flash Drives don't deserves such confidence.
Google 'flash drives failing'
Or read this:
http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/news/C3AFEC33918A8EE2CC2571EC00091A66
I hope this prevent data looses ;-)
regards,
Sebastian Sastre
ssastre at seaswork.com.ar
Seaswork
Special Software Solutions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
> Behalf Of Dave Hylands
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 6:35 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: OO Database question with FLASH drive
>
> Hi Bert,
>
> > What if you make a huge file on the MMC card, and put a
> jffs2 into it
> > via loopback?
>
> It's not that simple. jffs2 is layered on top of MTD rather
> than just being a block device.
>
> I'm sure you could write a driver which worked with a
> loopback, but I'm pretty sure that functionality doesn't
> currently exist.
>
> I'm also pretty sure that if you could do such a thing you
> would just be creating a false sense of security. The weakest
> link would still be the underlying FAT file system.
>
> --
> Dave Hylands
> Vancouver, BC, Canada
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
>
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