Am 30.08.2016 um 22:46 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There's nothing in Gentoo that guarantees everybody has ext2 support >> in their kernels. That said, I agree that ext2 (or perhaps ext3 with >> journalling disabled -- I've always been a bit fuzzy on whether that's >> exactly the same thing or not) > Sorry, I just wanted to chime in on one thing. While a journal > probably will cause more flash wear, it also potentially adds data > integrity. > > Now consider that the original message that started this whole thread > was important files being stored on flash and being corrupted. > Getting rid of the journal might not be the best move. > > Unless you have a LOT of writes to flash you're not going to wear it > out, especially with wear-leveling algorithms. > > Oh, and finally, if it matters that much, have a backup... >
the journal does not add any data integrity benefits at all. It just makes it more likely that the fs is in a sane state if there is a crash. Likely. Not a guarantee. Your data? No one cares. If you want an fs that cares about your data: zfs.
