How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and it works great, but for how long?
What got me to thinking was that I have a system using conventional magnetic-based hard drives and ext3 file systems. The second hard drive is not used as often and I noticed that the system shuts it down to rest until one calls for a file off the secondary drive. If the journal for all drives is on the boot drive, then that explains everything. If not, one would expect the secondary drive to be awake all the time since the journal would write every five seconds or so. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201108261625.p7qgpvgc067...@x.it.okstate.edu