Marc,

You will want to start slogger with the -c option to force synchronous
flushing to the disk.

David 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Roessler [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
> Sent: August 24, 2009 8:02 AM
> To: general-filesystems
> Subject: logging to ETFS partition using ETFS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we're using slogger and we're logging to an ETFS partition.
> 
> Now the problem is, when powering off without calling 
> "shutdown" first, the last entries (since last boot) are 
> lost! It seems slogger either keeps the entries in RAM for 
> quite some time and flushes them regularly (?) or ETFS itself 
> doesn't fluish too often... (?)
> 
> How can I tell slogger/ETFS to flush right away, similar the 
> way syslogd does on unixoid systems by default?
> 
> I know that ETFS usually writes 512/2024 Byte blocks... but 
> this shouldn't be a real issue: as far as I understand, you 
> could flush by writing the (still quite empty) block padded 
> with 0xFF (which is the default data value after erasing the 
> flash), then later writing it a a second time with the first 
> part identical but some of the padding replaced with new 
> data... and so on.
> 
> This is an important issue for us, suggestions are very welcome.
> 
> Greetings,
>  Marc
> 
> 
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