Stefan Monnier wrote: > > PS: typically flash memory is made up of "eraseblocks" that are much > larger than a disk block, so depending on the way your flash key works, > writing a single block (512bytes) of your disk may end up doing "read > the surrounding eraseblock; erase it, rewrite it with the new content of > that particular block", so if the operation gets interrupted right after > the erase, you may end up losing a whole bunch of nearby (but maybe > unrelated) blocks.
Hi, my experience with ext3 on external disk is excellent. I've been testing it last year with raid and the raid itself on usb was not very reliable, though I still have 2x200GB raided usb disks running for more than an year. But I've never had a problem with ext3 on a single usb drive an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about 100000 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
