<div dir="ltr">Flash has limited writes in its lifetime. That is why we have special filesystems for flash [1],[2] (e.g. jffs2).<br><br>ext3 (due to its journalling) might not be good idea for Sd-card. I think ext2 would fare fine except that it might be left with corrupted FS in case improper shutdown but at least it would not impact the life of the card.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Iain B. Findleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ifindleton@videotron.ca">ifindleton@videotron.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I did appear to observe that using ext3 on the uSD partitions<br>
appears to be faster than using FAT file systems, however. </blockquote><div><br>--VIkas<br><br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flash_file_systems#Flash_memory_.2F_solid_state_media_file_systems">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flash_file_systems#Flash_memory_.2F_solid_state_media_file_systems</a> <br>
[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_flash#Flash_file_systems">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_flash#Flash_file_systems</a><br></div></div><br></div>