On Sb, 27 aug 11, 19:39:33, Rob Owens wrote:
I recall reading that ext4 is much quicker than ext3 on flash drives, so
you may want to consider using that. Although I'm not sure what you
have to do to get Lenny to support ext4.
Done that: the minimum would be backported kernel + e2fsprogs.
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500:
I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller
distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of
space when installing (instead of the default 10%). NOTE: I could be
wrong about that - I'm just guessing.
Hmm,
On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500:
I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller
distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of
space when installing (instead of the default 10%). NOTE: I could be
wrong about
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-28 10:19 -0500:
On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500:
I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller
distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of
space when installing
Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-08-26 16:49 -0500:
card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows
partially formatted (corrupted) it.
Since that 8GB card was broken, she upgraded to a 16GB card
Can Windows really *break* a card (rather than just the filesystem on it)?
On 29/08/11 07:00, green wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-28 10:19 -0500:
On 29/08/11 00:03, green wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-08-27 08:50 -0500:
I don't imagine upgrading will make much difference - the controller
distributes the writes evenly, for which reason I reserve 25% of
On 29/08/11 08:49, green wrote:
Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-08-26 16:49 -0500:
card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows
partially formatted (corrupted) it.
Since that 8GB card was broken, she upgraded to a 16GB card
Can Windows really *break* a card
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 11:19:20 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Based on my experiences using ext3 as a file system for running Debian
on USB sticks. Single partition (no swap), logging redirected to vt12.
2 identical sticks (major brand) - identical builds - noatime enabled on
one, not on
On 27/08/11 22:37, Brian wrote:
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 11:19:20 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
snipped
The one without noatime died earlier this year after approx 2 years of
use - the other has been upgraded to Squeeze and still works fine.
I have just put unstable with an ext4 filesystem on
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
[…]
Full backups:-
dd if=/dev/deb_usb | gzip -1 -c ./deb_usb.img.gz
Full restores:-
zcat ./deb_usb.img.gz | dd of=/dev/deb_usb
My e2dis suite, which I hopeful to release soon, will probably
be a better fit for
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
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?
I've
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
Martin McCormick wrote at 2011-08-26 11:25 -0500:
How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives?
Not much worse than without a journal I think, but
What got me to thinking was that I have a system using
conventional magnetic-based hard drives and ext3 file systems.
The
green wrote at 2011-08-26 15:06 -0500:
Martin McCormick wrote at 2011-08-26 11:25 -0500:
How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives?
Not much worse than without a journal I think, but
...that is just the feeling I have gotten from trying in vain to answer that
question
All I can offer is some almost-on-target empirical evidence. My daughter has
had an Acer Aspire One for 3 or 4 years. Her /home was an 8GB Sandisk SD
card. It never had any problems...until her husband noticed he had an SD
card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows
On 27/08/11 02:25, Martin McCormick wrote:
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
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