Debian - How to install the kernel

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Thu Aug 7 12:22:28 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

| I read that ext3 journals a lot and could possibly thrash
| my card. Is it ok to use it?

One of the things to like about SD Card and other card / stick memory is
it hides many of the details of raw NAND from us, like bad blocks, error
correcting codes and in this case wear levelling.

I have run my mailserver on a 1G USB stick (hooked up to an ARM board I
designed for another customer) for 2 years 24 / 7 now formatted ext3,
that gets pretty hammered, no trouble.  So I can't guarantee your
particular card isn't broken for wear levelling, but cheap random USB
stick doesn't care in the least about ext3 and I didn't see any trouble
from SD with ext3 either.

- -Andy
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