Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756995AbXFNTpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:45:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755967AbXFNToJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:44:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.regionline.fi ([85.157.255.99]:52922 "EHLO smtp.regionline.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756452AbXFNToI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:44:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:44:07 EDT From: Jan Knutar To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext2 on flash memory Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:36:55 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: DervishD , Juergen Beisert References: <20070611101319.GA14284@DervishD> <200706112127.42119.juergen127@kreuzholzen.de> <20070613134843.GC1983@DervishD> In-Reply-To: <20070613134843.GC1983@DervishD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706142236.56195.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 20 On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:48, DervishD wrote: > But anyway the memory should last long. Even cheap flash memories > with poor wear leveling (if any at all) usually long last. Given that > I won't be writing continuously, wear shouldn't be a problem. I'm > going to use this as a backup copy of my home. Of course, I can use a > tarball too... I did a test on my kingston datatraveler recently, I didn't expect it to survive, but it did. I put reiserfs on it, and copied 394M of data in 200,000 files to it. Reiserfs was sloooow at writing, the device was probably doing alot of work. ext2 was about 10X faster, but there was hardly any free space left at all at the end :) Considering it surived ReiserFS, I suspect it would last ages with ext2, especially for your backup purposes. - 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/