[omgps] collect feature requests

[W.Kenworthy]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 23:32 +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
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> 
> But, it was reproducible. If the device freezed or I removed the battery, many
> tile maps got unreadable. I couldnt even list some directories or cd into them!
> (it rules out heavy CPU load, and not getting enough power)
... 
> So the problem really comes about the insane 75000 files (118MB).
> 
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75000 tiles is not a lot:
root at om-gta02 ~ $ df -h
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               252544    151096    101448  60% /
none                     60400        56     60344   0% /dev
shmfs                    60400         0     60400   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1           94559     76295     13382  85% /media/card
/dev/mmcblk0p2         5719599   2107720   3383078  38% /media/p2
volatile                 60400       580     59820   1% /var/volatile
root at om-gta02 ~ $ find /media/p2/OSM -name *.png|wc
2207969   2207969  74463452

Yes, thats over 2 million files :)
TangoGPS works fine ...



Not all SD cards are created equal - many (including mine) require a
reduced clock speed and then they are completely stable.  I keep running
out of inodes - ext3 sucks, even when created using maximum inodes -
then fsck really takes forever!  I believe reiserfs which is a far
better file system in my opinion is available in 2.6.29 SHR (I am stuck
on 2.6.28 as 2.6.29 gsm doesnt work for me.) - stabler and doesnt have
inode limits.

Try creating an init.d script to run at boot:

root at om-gta02 ~ $ cat /etc/init.d/sd_clk 
#!/bin/sh

echo 10000000 > /sys/module/glamo_mci/parameters/sd_max_clk

root at om-gta02 ~ $
and make sure its mounted async

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