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 12:21:22 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <5kv5alxctp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <7t5malx9rp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <3ssvalx2ng.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VoXseHcr1Hin9uRbFgk9CQBLvX/3wtc9lO6zs+Uqk7ZOdio1K4 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:n6ZkYUVteLbORnF1wHUo9SYRmEw= sha256:Yjh8n+U5BKjnK8J2r6+fPX2daKRb/qXLm3dDtczYY48= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <3ssvalx2ng.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:81156 On 2025-03-21 11:50, Carlos E.R. wrote: > 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. > f2fs -- Cheers, Carlos.