[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Michael Mol]

On Nov 29, 2007 9:35 AM, Justin Popa <tehpopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well here's the issue. These are used by doctors every 30 minutes. Basically
> goes like this:
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> Doc sees patient.
> Doc dictates letter.
> (Repeat 4-5 times)
> Doc inserts dictation device into cradle and it downloads information and
> erases original files.
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> Rinse and repeat 10 times a day, for 30 doctors.

I'd suggest increasing the frequency of cradle visits.  When the
machines corrupt the drives, is the most-recently-recorded data also
corrupt, or just the other data that hasn't seen a cradle yet?

I seem to recall that the FAT filesystems have a backup table, too.
But it's been ages since I fiddled with fsck.vfat
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> On Nov 28, 2007 8:59 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 28, 2007 8:00 PM,  <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, November 28, 2007 4:46 pm, Rick Vargo wrote:
> > > > Is FAT all that the dictation devices support?  If the devices support
> > > > other more robust filesystems (with journaling) use them in lieu of
> FAT.
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> > > > Rick
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> > > I'm sure that they don't support anything other than FAT and if they did
> > > you would still not want to do it. Journaling is bad, bad, bad to use on
> > > flash drives. It wears them out.
> >
> > Not really true on modern flash devices with much better per-cell
> > lifetimes and with wear-leveling.  Granted, with 200 of them, there
> > were probably bought bottom-dollar discount, and may not have such
> > features. :-)
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> > > Granted, it sounds as if the dictation equipment is junk and routinely
> > > destroys the drives anyway...
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> > > Probably the best solution involves frequent backups and lots of spares.
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> > Indeed.
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> > :wq
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