Re: [debian] choice of root filesystem type?

2008-12-09 Thread arne anka
Are there other fs types that are more suitable, and work with debian? the supposed wear of ext3 is caused by the journalling imo -- since journalling is, what you are after, there's nothing else. otoh there where a while ago some postings regarding the wear, and most were in favour of ext3,

[debian] choice of root filesystem type?

2008-12-09 Thread joakim
Hello, Currently I run ext2 on my debian root, but its annoying in that when the phone looses power, the fs is quite often corrupt. What about ext3? I've read that a journaling fs will lower the life expectancy of the sd card, but how much? If I need to buy a new sd card every couple of months,

Re: [debian] choice of root filesystem type?

2008-12-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, arne anka wrote: Are there other fs types that are more suitable, and work with debian? the supposed wear of ext3 is caused by the journalling imo -- since journalling is, what you are after, there's nothing else. otoh there where a while ago some postings

Re: [debian] choice of root filesystem type?

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:24:30 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there other fs types that are more suitable, and work with debian? For the future I'd keep an eye on btrfs, it has an ssd mount option amongst other things (including checksumming your data on disk, snapshots, etc). -- Chris Samuel