On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:37:20 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 24 aug 20, 09:26:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Since F2FS is not supported directly for an install, one would have to > > convert to it after or configure the flash drive with another computer > > before the install. I don't know if it is worth the time to do so. > > EXT4 without journaling would be easier. > > The journal is written to only if the filesystem is written to as well. Yes, and every time a log is written to, too. On my main system, normal usage, journaling on, I'm getting hard drive activity about 2 to 3 times a minute 24/7/365. And currently, I have firewall logging off which was writing to log every 2 seconds or so. The two Roku devices I have, for some reason, were trying to access this computer, but no others. Don't know why. Some have suggested to remount / read-only, but since my plan is not to have a separate /home partition, that would cause problems. Probably will cause problems even if I do. However, the NAS software I plan to use (OpenMediaVault) has a specific plugin if you're using solid state devices for the system and/or DATA drives. Don't know exactly what it does, or whether it's a binary or an executable script. Guess I'll have to wait until I get to the point of installing it to see what it does. No details are given in OMV's docs. > Without having any other data than my own, admittedly limited, > experience[1] it doesn't seem worth disabling the journal, it is only > written when the filesystem is written to as well anyway. At least the flash drive I'm using has wear leveling. And I'm going to leave about 15% of it unpartitioned to be safe. Plus, clone it, so if it goes down, I just plug in the clone and I'm up and running. > [1] all my current systems are running from SD cards, with the only > optimisation being to not configure any swap. Thanks for your input. B