Does journaling wear USBstik ?

From	no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Does journaling wear USBstik ?
Date	2011-04-03 13:47 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<in9tom$cjg$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I like this slak-based CD-runner, since it automounts everything.

And for `mount` it shows:-
...
/dev/hda12 on /mnt/hda12 type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda14 on /mnt/hda14 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/hda16 on /mnt/hda16 type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
...
/dev/sda on /mnt/sda type vfat (rw,noatime,quiet,umask=0,check=s,shortname=mixed)


Is it true that reiserfs and/or ext3 writes to the disk,
on a regular basis, even if the PC is not 'used' for days?

And that this would cause significant 'wear' to limited-life
flash-memories?

But this doesn't apply to vfat?

And if I eventually get to partition a USBstik to reiserfs 
and ext3 , there's a switch to disable the repeated writing?

This CD doesnt have any <man>s.

== TIA.

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Does journaling wear USBstik ? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-03 13:47 +0000
  Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Douglas Mayne <none@invalid.com> - 2011-04-03 15:13 +0000
  Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-03 18:53 +0100
  Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman@tudelft.nl> - 2011-04-04 10:28 +0200
  Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 15:36 +0000
    Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201104.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-04-06 05:47 +0200
      Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-06 08:01 +0100

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