Hi Denis,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Denis Wee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 1:33 am, Ray Rashif wrote:
>> Just remember that you do not want to use a journaling fs on an USB other
>> than jffs2.
>
> Can you explain a little bit more on this?

My colleague did a little experiment to find out exactly how long an
ext3-partitioned thumb-drive can last by constantly writing random
data to it using the O_DIRECT flag.

http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html

Check it out.

Thanks, Eugene

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