<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, ian douglas <<a href="mailto:ian.douglas@iandouglas.com">ian.douglas@iandouglas.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">Federico Lorenzi wrote:<br>
> Makes sense, ext3 is journaled, and using a journaling FS on flash<br>
> memory is generally a bad idea. Could you also try ext2?<br>
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</div>Sorry, I'm not up to speed on flash and file systems -- why is a<br>
journaled file system a bad idea?<br><br></blockquote>
Journaled file systems perform lots of extra writes to the drive. Flash drives wear out a little quicker (in terms of writes) than other drives. Putting the two together means you're probably decreasing the length of your drive's life.<br>
<br clear="all">---<br>Andrew Bennett<br><a href="mailto:drewbenn@gmail.com">drewbenn@gmail.com</a>
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