David Hrbác wrote: > Oliver Schulze L. napsal(a): > >> Thats a good point, I should look into the constant write problem. >> I was thinking in an embedded platform for its costs, low space, low >> power consumption >> and disk less operation. >> > > No, that's pretty good point. :o) Majority of systems running from > CF|XD|etc. are mounting read only the media, keeping logs and other > thins in RAM-disk and sending them to central authority. There's write > attempt limit within CF. > there's special file systems optimized for flash use, squashfs is readonly (its compressed at system build time) and jffs2 (aka jiffy) is a writeable FS designed to minimize block writes to the flash. Embedded Linux like used by OpenWRT on the WRT54GS and compatible routers uses both of these. http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceware.org/jffs2/ the discussion of these two on the OpenWRT WIKI... http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Installing#head-3d6480403b294d4c261f360ab9efc82f388a8790