On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2011, Tim Soderstrom wrote: > >>> >>> However, after some amount of time, the errors occur below, is this USB >>> stick failing? Since it has no SMART, is there any other way to verify >>> the 'health' of a USB stick? >> >> What prompted you to go with XFS over, say, ext2? The journal will generally >> cause quite a bit more writes onto your USB device. I use ext2 on my CF card >> in my NAS for that reason (the spinning media is on XFS of course). I know >> that's not an answer to your problem but thought I would add it as a suggestion :) > > Using ext2 on flash media instead of ext3 or other file systems is > recommended a lot, but the situation is actually much more complex. > In https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/, I explain how these things work > under the cover. For a drive that can only have very few erase blocks > open, using a journaled file system will always mean thrashing, but > for drives with more open erase blocks, it's probably better to > use a journal than not. Wow that's a great article, thanks for the link! Tim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
