Re: Aerospace and linux

[Brian Gordon]

Storage will probably be something really cheap.  So I assume flash.
But, possibly a USB stick type device.   Maybe an IDE based solid
state storage device.


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Massimiliano Galanti
<massiblue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, not quite. See i.e. AXFS, or squashfs that are ro and flash oriented
> by design.
>
> Anyway, if you're stuck with NTFS/VFAT and can't use NOR...
>
> (Just curious of what technology are you relying on for storage)
>
> Il 10/06/2010 21:42, Brian Gordon ha scritto:
>>
>> Sorry, I take it back.   This wont work for me because I wont have
>> NOR.   Also, I only want the "in-place" to apply to read-only pages.
>> This looks like all reads and writes get passed to the underlying
>> storage and I can't suffer flash page erase/writes to update a
>> variable. :)  The device will wear out and meaningful work would be
>> starved.
>
> --
> Massimiliano
>
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