SanDisk micro SDHC 8GB card under testing

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Andrew Bennett writes:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, ian douglas <ian.douglas at iandouglas.com>
>> wrote:
>> Federico Lorenzi wrote:
>> > Makes sense, ext3 is journaled, and using a journaling FS on flash
>> > memory is generally a bad idea. Could you also try ext2?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not up to speed on flash and file systems -- why is a
>> journaled file system a bad idea?
>>
>> 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.

Well...  using an inode-based filesystem like ext2 or ext3 is a really
bad idea, since you end up rewriting some of the blocks a *lot*.
Journalling the metadata, as ext3 does it, does make things even worse
as you say.  Using a purely journalled FS like jffs2, on the other
hand, is a really good idea since it's designed to avoid exactly those
flaws.