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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Internal Flash Partition Mount Options

« on: November 02, 2005, 09:04:01 am »

Hello pdaXrom Team,

I checked the mount options for my CF&SD-Cards and added a "noatime" option for it.
I use ext2 for all and would not allow more writes to safe life time of the units.
Then i checked jffs2 which is used for the root system and for /home on the internal flash memory chips.
On http://www.ssiembedded.com/embedded_linux_...ing_memory.html
they say "noatime" is a usefull option here too, to reduce the count of writes with unnecessary updates of the access time attribute of files.
But, to append this option to the root fs, there must be set a kernel option or a mount/remount be done.
My question now: Did you know about this ? How can we give the "noatime" to all internal flash partitions.
Cause without this i see the danger of rapidly aged internal flash !
Many Files are opened when booting or startx and every access time is updated !

Thanks
  Thomas
 
( New C1000 User, pdaXrom rc12 )

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Keys In Rc12, How To Reset

« on: October 11, 2005, 02:56:11 am »

Hello List,
i flashed the rc12 on my c1k yesterday and it runs very nice.
I left X to play movies with mplayer because they run better without,
i entered "init 2" in a xterm to enter normal "text mode".
Then i suspended with "apm --suspend" and resumed by on/off key, so all running fine.
Then somewhat happend at work, i entered wrong key or so, and the input shell hangs.
My question, Is there any key or key combination to switch to another terminal or to reset or whatever without the need to put i out of the case, open the battery and push the little black button ?
Is there a table or file with a decription of all keys and their functions, especially control keys ?

THX
  Thomas

  C1000, SD512MB, CF256MB, pdaXrom rc12, WLAN-Artem