We have BBB based custom board with 256MB RAM and 4GB eMMC running Linux kernel 3.12
*TL;DR*: Is there a open source application which periodically reads unread/rarely used partition to increase data retention? OR Is there any kernel service which can be configure *Detailed query,* We have 3 sets of partition for OS(Bootloader, kernel+dtb & RFS) eMMC. One of them is recovery OS. Which is rarely read( none of the time written). Now as per eMMC manufacturerer, "*If a byte is not read in 5 years there is no guarantee that byte is valid when read after 5 years.*" To avoid such situation we want to have a crawler application, which would read all the unused/unread partition may be once in a year and increase data retention. I didn't find any open source application or kernel service/daemon which would handle that. But not sure If I am searching it correctly or not. Meanwhile If there is no solution available for this, I am planning to do it in following way. 1. Setup a cron job which would trigger once in a year and run a script. 2. Script would read all the partition using dd and return. What do you think about this approach. Let me know if you have any suggestion/correction/pointers for me. Thank you, Ankur -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/6a03c437-f019-4ac0-9d87-be6a1721ca01%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
