On 13-03-2014 12:04, Øyvind Heggstad wrote: >> Any info would be appreciated. >> >> BTW: I am planning on using a 64gb usb key for this endeavor. > > Just create a extra partition on the usb stick and format it as f2fs or > whatever. There you go, persistent storage. > I would say go with btrfs in that case. I've tried f2fs for a while and in my opinion it still needs to mature a bit more, right now I'm giving btrfs a go and so far I'm happy. My setup right now is this: 32GB usb3 drive |-sda1 (4G) - fat32 |-sda1 (256M) - ext4 /boot |-sda2 (rest of drive) - luks - btrfs - subvolumes for root and home -- Mauro Santos