Re: Ext3 for flash drive
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:04:27 -0400, Stefan Monnier (monnier@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote:
> >> > Why so many difficult answers?
> >> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your
>
> Why ext2 rather than ext3?
I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to
say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives
because of the reduced number of writes to disk.
> > Google for explore2fs.
>
> It claims to support both ext2 and ext3.
It does support both. (Because from a read-only point of view they are
the same?)
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