Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754760AbXFLVge (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:36:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751735AbXFLVg1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:36:27 -0400 Received: from crown.reflexsecurity.com ([72.54.139.163]:42028 "EHLO crown.reflexsecurity.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbXFLVg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:36:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1599 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:36:26 EDT Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:09:45 -0400 From: Jason Lunz To: DervishD Cc: lkml Subject: Re: ext2 on flash memory Message-ID: <20070612210943.GA27509@metaxa.reflex> References: <20070611101319.GA14284@DervishD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070611101319.GA14284@DervishD> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 17 In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote: > I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB > pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any > device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a > good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like... Have a look at the UBI layer. It adds wear-levelling to MTD devices. Of course, to use it on a regular blockdev like this you'll have to do something like usb-storage (sd) -> block2mtd -> ubi -> jffs2. But it can be done afaik. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/