Reliability of USB-based filesystems? Lack thereof?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:02:03PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | 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.

Well ext3 works fine, and only journals meta data by default, which
means very little overhead, and a major reduction in the frequency of
fsck checks.  I only use ext2 for small filesystems like /boot which
rarely get written to.

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Len Sorensen
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