On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash > drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put > a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and > it works great, but for how long? > I've been using Debian Live for quite some time. I used to use ext2 for speed reasons. Now I use ext4. There was a brief period where I used ext3. I've never had a usb stick "die" on me due to overuse.
I recall reading that ext4 is much quicker than ext3 on flash drives, so you may want to consider using that. Although I'm not sure what you have to do to get Lenny to support ext4. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110827233933.ga13...@aurora.owens.net
