47PHA60's Journal: Firewall Appliance pt 3

Anybody seen this with Compact Flash and Linux? Using either ext2 or ext3 I get some weird errors on the Compact Flash partition that is mounted read-write.

Every so often after and init 6 or init 0 the system needs to fsck'd, saying that there are errors on the filesystem. I switched the /usr filesystem to read-only and the errors stopped. I am working on getting /var into a ramfs, and /tmp -> /var/tmp, which should obviate the need for read-write partitions from the CF.

But, this filesystem corruption is worrisome, as I will have to remount rw to update the software or kernel.

Then again, I seem to remember problems like this on RedHat on my regular old Intel machine, and some sort of fix I put in place to make sure it cleanly unmounted at init 6 or 0. I should learn to keep better docs.

What errors?

[Thoron]

Please, paste the error messages.