SanDisk micro SDHC 8GB card under testing

Mike Montour mail at mmontour.net
Sat Jul 12 05:35:18 CEST 2008


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?

By default ext3 only journals metadata, so it shouldn't have much 
performance impact for large files.

SD cards are dirt-cheap these days, so I'm willing to accept a somewhat 
reduced lifespan in order to get the journaling feature of ext3.





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