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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] read-only Debian on TS-7260
From: Don Tucker <>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:50:39 -0500
Damn it!  Well, thanks for the information, Russ.

Don
On 6/22/2012 3:37 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson wrote:
My research into SD card reliability says that even a read-only root won't help 
you if you have a different partition mounted read-write on the same SDcard. 
The wear-leveling system can cause two partitions to be handed the same flash 
block, so that writing into the read-write partition can cause part of the 
read-only filesystem to get rewritten and possibly corrupted if the sdcard 
write fails.

There's no magic bullet, I fear.
-russ
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From:   on behalf of Clark 
Dunson 
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] read-only Debian on TS-7260

Yes Don, we ship that way.  TS-7260/2.6.21  read-only root

This wiki is particularly helpful:

http://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot

We had to partition the SD card to make room for /var which still must be 
mounted RW.
All attempts to mount the NAND on TS-7260 have failed once booted from SD card 
have failed though.

On Jun 19, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Don Tucker wrote:

That's great.  The SD card image that I'm currently using was developed for the 
TS-7400, so my procedure can probably follow yours.  Did you use the unionfs 
method described in the TS document I linked to?

Don

On 6/19/2012 10:04 AM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson wrote:
No, but I got it working on a TS-7400.
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From:   on behalf of Don Tucker 

Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:50 AM
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Subject: [ts-7000] read-only Debian on TS-7260

I'm currently running a 2.6.21-ts kernel and Debian file system on an SD
card with a TS-7260.  I'm considering trying to restrict all of the file
system writes to a single read-write partition, and leave everything
else read-only.  I found this resource on Technologic Systems' website
that describes setting up a read-only file system for the TS-73XX.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=466

Has anyone tried this for the TS-72XX?

Don




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