Re: What file system to use?

From	Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What file system to use?
Date	2017-02-03 15:20 +0100
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On 02/02/17 02:58 AM, Ken Heard wrote:
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> On 2017-02-02 08:47, Gary Dale wrote:
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>> There shouldn't be any problem with ext4. It's been the Linux
>> standard for years now. I can't even imagine what the backup issue
>> would be unless they were trying to make some kind of sparse backup
>> using FS internals.
> I use USB flash drives and 480 GB SanDisk portable drives for some
> backups. I started by using ext4 on one of the flash drives. The next
> day I tried to boot the computer, but found that the computer hung.
> Only at this point did I find out that those drives are not capable of
> journalling.
>
> So I either had to use ext4 with the journalling feature disabled or
> revert to ext2 for these drives.  I chose the latter, as simpler and
> less susceptible to errors.  I have had no trouble with them since.
>
> Regards, Ken Heard
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>
That's a separate issue from what the OP asked. USB sticks aren't great 
for use with a journaling file system, which would include ext3 (but not 
ext2), because you can only write to them a limited number of times. 
However that doesn't preclude their use as a backup device even with 
journaling enabled.

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    Re: What file system to use? solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-01 09:50 +0100
  Re: What file system to use? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-02-01 11:20 +0100
  Re: What file system to use? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-02-01 13:30 +0100
    Re: What file system to use? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-01 14:40 +0100
  Re: What file system to use? Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-01 23:40 +0100
    Re: What file system to use? Roba <roba@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-02 01:20 +0100
      Re: What file system to use? Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-02 03:10 +0100
        Re: What file system to use? Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> - 2017-02-02 09:20 +0100
          Re: What file system to use? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-02 21:10 +0100
            Re: What file system to use? Ken Heard <kenslists@teksavvy.com> - 2017-02-03 05:30 +0100
          Re: What file system to use? Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-02-03 15:20 +0100
      Re: What file system to use? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-02 11:10 +0100

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