[CentOS] "power outage"-save / like embedded systems

Wed Oct 1 15:08:08 UTC 2014
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 01.10.2014 um 00:53 schrieb John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>:
> On 9/30/2014 3:42 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> Sure, for servers but I am talking about a small
>> 9W-power-consumption appliance that have this
>> requirement:-)
> 
> I don't think CentOS is the appropriate distribution for
> that sort of system. Does it even have jffs2 support?


$ modinfo jffs2
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/jffs2/jffs2.ko
license:        GPL
author:         Red Hat, Inc.
description:    The Journalling Flash File System, v2
srcversion:     8455E744807A823ED40A4E8
depends:        zlib_deflate
vermagic:       2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions 



> a uClinux/busybox based system would be much more appropriate.
> maybe start with DSL, http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ or tinycore,
> http://tinycorelinux.net/


the consumption of resources like memory and storage is not an issue.
The main reason to stay with C6 is our internal processes. Another 
distro to be maintained is not an option. I will check the 
implementation of the distros above ... thanks.


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LF