On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 18:27 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > 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. > In it is not muh use if you ever want to put it in a Wiindws machine. -- ======================================================================= Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living. -- W.C. Bennett ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
