On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think there is another problem with having pen drives formatted ext3 > or ext4. Pen drives can only tolerate a finite number of writes before > they crap out. Any format that involves journaling will increase the > number of writes to the pen drive and hasten its failure. The journal's size is not very large I suppose. And I also suppose that, like all other data, it is shifted from one place to another in other to have an equilibrium, not some sectors being written thousands of times and some other never. OTOH, when I formatted, I wasn't so sure that ext3 was much use on a USB drive. I still don't know. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
