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Message-ID: <4671B5BB.2000203@wpkg.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:40:11 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org> To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: ext2 on flash memory Jan Knutar wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote: >> But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories >> with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given that >> I won't be writing continuously, wear shouldn't be a problem. I'm >> going to use this as a backup copy of my home. Of course, I can use a >> tarball too... > > I did a test on my kingston datatraveler recently, I didn't expect it to > survive, but it did. I put reiserfs on it, and copied 394M of data in > 200,000 files to it. Reiserfs was sloooow at writing, the device was > probably doing alot of work. ext2 was about 10X faster, but there was > hardly any free space left at all at the end :) > > Considering it surived ReiserFS, I suspect it would last ages with ext2, > especially for your backup purposes. I have a couple of years old USB stick, which was used for swap, and for compiling stuff natively on some small mipsel devices, and generally moving files back and forth a lot (ext3 + noatime). Still, it works just fine. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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