Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:50:11 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ssvalx2ng.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <5kv5alxctp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <7t5malx9rp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net j3hIb+jgkysUuWOUGk2QDweH7+0VtJ4rh21tahq17BXPVFRgmk X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:y6qNmfNALXEA18vGx1uPR+BQlzM= sha256:0eBR41mkMhk/2gClGKP/a/zWs1DvBIzeFAvatzcxtEQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:81154 On 2025-03-20 23:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:04:27 -0400, Paul wrote: > >> If we could have flash sticks with SLC or MLC, my opinion might >> change then, but TLC or QLC devices are pretty sloppy pieces of >> crap. And those need static and dynamic wear leveling to give a good >> lifespan. > > Speaking of which, Linux offers one or two filesystems which are > specifically designed for use on such media, with wear-levelling built > into the storage allocation algorithms themselves. I remember one that was very promising, a four letter name that I have forgotten; but the support was removed in my distro (openSUSE) because the specs changed on every release of the distro, and a stick formatted one year would be unreadable the next year or something of the sort. It was industry designed for sticks and cards. -- Cheers, Carlos.