> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, ian douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Federico Lorenzi wrote: > > Makes sense, ext3 is journaled, and using a journaling FS on flash > > memory is generally a bad idea. Could you also try ext2? > > Sorry, I'm not up to speed on flash and file systems -- why is a > journaled file system a bad idea? > > Journaled file systems perform lots of extra writes to the drive. Flash drives wear out a little quicker (in terms of writes) than other drives. Putting the two together means you're probably decreasing the length of your drive's life.
--- Andrew Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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