Aaron Konstam <akons...@sbcglobal.net> writes: > I think there is another problem with having pen drives formatted ext3 > or ext4. Pen drives can only tolerate a finite number of writes before > they crap out. Any format that involves journaling will increase the > number of writes to the pen drive and hasten its failure.
I don't know if the problem is that bad in practice. Ted Ts'o has page about ext4 on SSD's and it sounds like wear is a concern, but in practice the media lasts longer than you'll want to use it for other reasons. http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/ -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3 non-overlapping WIFI channels? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
