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Subject: [ts-7000] SDCard and YAFFS2.
From: "Dunge2" <>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:42:47 -0000
Hi!
Sorry if that's been answered before, but I couldn't find a clear answer.

We currently have our dev systems, booting directly on the SDCard (ext3) and 
carefully calling shutdown before closing the device, and never had any problem.

Now we want to prepare devices for clients and they need to power off very 
often, while the device is running without calling shutdown. So we moved the OS 
on the onboard flash, and mount the SDCard on boot with only our application 
and data on it. We used a standard FAT for the SD simply because it was easier 
to work with. Everything works fine, but after 3-4 "hard shutdown (cut power)", 
the sdcard get corrupted and at some point the filesystem change from RW to RO 
automatically when it detect an error.

I guess we could put everything on the onboard flash, but we also want to be 
able to send updates to client (shipping another sdcard).

So I've searched a bit, and found out YAFFS2 seems to be a filesystem designed 
for flash and sdcard preventing this kind of corruption. I am right or I'm 
totally lost? Let's say I want to use it, I just can't find any utility to 
format my SDCard with this filesystem type. I can't find any mkfs.yaffs2, nor 
anything in apt-get. How do you do it?



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