Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Does journaling wear USBstik ? Followup-To: alt.os.linux.slackware Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:01:46 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <8vu6r0Fvj7U1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="T64WmhKTCmqMjY/e1gqQZQ"; logging-data="23402"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19D4ixA1uNG5cCbcrJX4dElkbpz7bR+L0c=" User-Agent: KNode/4.4.6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tg9OII3CaptrWZosSBrkPjLFsNM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.misc:609 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