Read FileX fault tolerant SD card in Windows

Pinjumper 25 Reputation points
2023-05-03T14:30:28.6633333+00:00

We're using Azure RTOS ThreadX and FileX. We have the fault tolerant file handling turned on in FileX. The documentatiuon says that:

"After the FileX Fault Tolerant module protects a media, the media must not be mounted by anything other than FileX with Fault Tolerant enabled. Doing so can cause the log entries in the file system to be inconsistent with system information on the media."

Will just reading the SD card in a Windows PC corrupt the file system? If so, is there a Windows driver or appl;ication that would allow WIndows to safely read the SD card?

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  1. LeelaRajeshSayana-MSFT 14,831 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-05-03T21:11:56.4566667+00:00

    Hi @Pinjumper Greetings! Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Thank you for posting the question here.

    Will just reading the SD card in a Windows PC corrupt the file system?

    Reading the SD card in a Windows PC would not corrupt the files or impact the log entries. Only creations, updates/modifications made to the file system would alter the log entries. The FileX Fault Tolerant Module looks for these logs to keep track of the changes made. If there were any updates made to files outside of the FileX Fault Tolerant module, this would cause the log entries to be inconsistent.

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