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Author: Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss
Anno domini 2019 Sat, 9 Nov 20:16:40 -0800
tom scripsit:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 22:09:13 +0000
> g4sra via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On 09/11/2019 20:53, tom wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:55:34 +0100
> > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@???> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Anno domini 2019 Fri, 8 Nov 16:36:24 +0100
> > >> Joril via Dng scripsit:
> > >>> On 08/11/19 16:21, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> > >>>> FYI: ext4 filesystem journaling (and swap) *should* be disabled
> > >>>> by default on SD\SDHC media.
> > >>>
> > >>> To reduce wear?
> > >>
> > >> Yes.
> > >
> > > I really don't think data-loss is an acceptable compromise just to
> > > reduce wear.
> > >
> >
> > Why do you believe turning off the journaling causes data loss ?
> > Journaling is not an acceptable method to prevent data loss - it
> > doesn't. _______________________________________________
>
> Because the whole point of my starting this thread was to provide
> instructions on how to recover a system after the dataloss occurred. If
> you would take the time to read the original post. This is not even a
> question. I would not have posted this or found out about these crazy
> defaults if my data was never lost in the first place.
>
>


Maybe I am a bit biased here, but putting important data on 30.- hardware like the RPi might raise the question of commensurability.

Nik



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