On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:52:40PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > ext2 is not suitable for flash memory, because usually ext2 insist on > updating atime for reads. This causes unnecessary writes, and flash memories > usually have limited write cycles. The filesystem could be mounted with the noatime option. If you forget, though, it would cause a fair amount of wear, like you say. -- Paul I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. -- George Best - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
