On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > It has been my experience that USB sticks use FAT, which is an ancient > file system which contains few of the features you expect from modern > file systems. As such, it really doesn't do any write caching. Hence, it > seems to work ok for casual users. I note that neither NTFS, ZFS, reiserfs, > nor many of the other, high performance file systems are used by default > for USB devices. Could it be that anyone not using FAT for USB devices > is straining against architectural limits?
There are no archtiectural limits. USB sticks can be used with whatever you throw at them. On sticks I use to interchange data with Windows machines I have NTFS, on others differente filesystems: ZFS, ext4, btrfs, often encrypted on block level. USB sticks are generally very simple -- no discard commands and other fancy stuff, but overall they are block devices just like discs, arrays, SSDs... -- Tomasz Torcz xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
