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[ts-7000] Re: data logging without flash fatigue

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: data logging without flash fatigue
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:18:39 -0000
--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, j.chitte wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am needing to log data once a second, although this is not 
> enormous
> > > it seems sufficiently frequent to reduce long term life of the 
> root
> > > fs on the onboard flash device (and hence effective board 
death).
> > >
> > > I'd thought of creating a small ramdisk and setting up a cron 
to 
> save
> > > it every hour.
> > >
> > > Is there a better/alternative technique?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any suggestions from those who have found solution 
to 
> this
> > > issue. Also any caveats to be aware of (apart from the obvious
> > > turning off apache logs).
> > >
> > > TIA, jacques.
> > 

Just want to check I have not overlooked something and go happily 
blasting my Flash with my data logging.

I have htdocs on yaffs containing static files , I mount two subdirs, 
data and data_images, mounted tmpfs where I will be writing once or 
twice a minute. These are mounted with bind to ramdisk1/2

$ mount
/dev/root on / type yaffs2 (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /mnt/ramdisk1 type ramfs (rw)
none on /mnt/ramdisk2 type ramfs (rw)
none on /www/apache/htdocs/data type ramfs (rw)
none on /www/apache/htdocs/data_images type ramfs (rw)

My main uncertainly was whether the parent htdocs would register a 
change each time there's a write to htdocs/data

Any wise councel?

TIA /js



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