Reliability of USB-based filesystems? Lack thereof?

Thu Nov 6 18:59:20 UTC 2008

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:47:05PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Linux, it was:
> Linux wolfe 2.6.20-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 21:10:58 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I don't have the laptop handy, so I'm not sure what version of
> Darwin/OS-X was involved there; it's the latest version of, erm,
> Tiger...
> 
> When I'm seeing the *same* behaviour on Linux as on MacOS, I'm mighty
> suspicious that it's *not* a kernel issue.

Yeah probably faulty hardware then.

Some USB card readers are junk as are some usb keys.  I have never seen
corruption on either myself.

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