Reliability of USB-based filesystems? Lack thereof?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:46:28 -0500
| From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>

| > Chris: have you tried EXT2 (I think that EXT3's journalling is a Bad
| > Thing for flash)?
| 
| journalling is just fine if the wear leveling works properly on the
| device.

See this interesting blog entry
  http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/2008/12/02/
It too suggests ext2.

Off topic things of interest:

putting Fedora 9 on Asus Eee PC.  Undated:
  http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/eeepc/

This one is about power usage in his home:
  http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/power/
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