Le 13/03/2013 11:56, Bart Noordervliet a écrit : > USB flash drives are rubbish for any filesystem except FAT32 and then > still only gracefully accept large sequential writes. A few years ago > I thought it would be a good idea to put the root partition of a few > of my small Debian servers on USB flash, so that the harddisks could > spin down at night and I could easily prepare and switch a new > Debian-version. However, each and every USB stick got trashed within a > year I have an ARM box that runs a little Debian server (typically an advanced NAS), it uses an USB key as an ext2 root filesystem. Everything but big storage is there, and it's been up and running 24/7 for 3+ years without any USB key incident...
The USB key is a cheap 1 GB Verbatim I purchased from the next drugstore ;-) -- Swâmi Petaramesh <sw...@petaramesh.org> http://petaramesh.org PGP 9076E32E Ne cherchez pas : Je ne suis pas sur Facebook. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html