[Baypiggies] File IO question

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:32 -0700, Monte Davidoff wrote:

> 1. Write new data file.
> 2. Invoke /bin/sync to ensure the new data file is written to disk, if 
> shelve did not take care of this already.

Just use os.fsync(fp.fileno()).

> I'm also working on an embedded Linux application that writes to a flash 
> drive.  To get journaling, I've used XFS on the flash drive, although I 
> have not tried JFFS2.

This is not a very good idea.  Linux's flash filesystems are designed
specifically to limit the number of write cycles they make to any given
region of memory ("wear leveling"), which disk-oriented filesystems do
not need to worry about.  You'll significantly reduce the usable
lifetimes of your flash devices if you use an inappropriate filesystem.
Also, XFS is enormous, hardly a good fit for a presumably
resource-constrained embedded system.

	<b