On 11/18/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I seem to remember reading somewhere that one shouldn't use a journalling file system on flash-based devices such as USB drives (i.e. you should use ext2 rather than ext3), but I can't find the reference right now. Can anyone clarify this for me?
That is my understanding as well, because flash devices are only good for so many writes before they fail, and journalling filesystems write consistently to the same area for every metadata update. So I would go with ext2, and make sure to mount it with the noatime option. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
