Questions tagged [compact-flash]

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Relatime vs noatime for flash drives

I am running a web server off of a SheevaPlug, and the OS and system are stored on an SD card with an ext3 file system. I know that atime is a major source of writes that wear out flash memory. This question recommends using the relatime mount…
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44pin industrial flash ide on embeded debian freezes after an indefinite period of time

On an embedded system I have, using a 44 pin transcend industrial flash, after a while I will notice that I cannot read any files or write to the disk. I am using the 3.2.0.* BPO i686 SMP PAE kernel. This is sometimes accompanied by a freeze on the…
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How to monitor and measure the health of Compact Flash cards used as server storage?

Context The company sells access to a sort of cash register web application. Access to the application is given through a VPN. The VPN entrypoint for the clients is a Soekris board running Voyage Linux (a trimmed down version of Debian). These…
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cannot ssh to a cloned machine, while can to the original

I have several Computer On module boards which are the same generation/version/model. I have setup the first in the series, with all configurations and settings I wanted. I then took the Compact flash, and plugged it into a second board of the same…
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