The best OS to deal with Flash Cards

[William Park]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:05:06AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Sy wrote:
> > Filesystem.. I second ext2, although I prefer to include journalling (ext3).
> 
> Doesn't the ext3 journal take up a signficant amount of space, on the
> smaller devices?

Yes.  I think the main point of journal is for fsck'ing in case you just
pull it out.  Downside is that it will shorten lifetime, because all
flash memory has finite write-cycle.

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