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Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ?

From Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ?
Followup-To alt.os.linux.slackware
Date 2011-04-06 08:01 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Fritz Wuehler wrote:

>> EXT2 doesn't do journaling, EXT3 is EXT2 plus journaling, EXT4 is and
>> improved EXT3. If you are running on a FLASH stick it's probably best to
>> use EXT2.
> 
> I don't agree. Pull the flash drive out without unmounting it and you'll
> wish you used a modern journaling filesystem.

If you mount the USB with "sync" it will be less of an issue...

-- 
Tim Watts

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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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