On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:13 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:01:31 David Christensen wrote: > > Do you know if the laptop or the desktop machine can use a USB flash > > drive as the system drive? My 945 chipset and newer machines can do > > this. It is one of the best cheap Linux tricks I've ever > > discovered. > > With limited life of the flash, linux filesystems are hell on flash. Not any longer :) There are now Linux filesystems specifically for flash memory - F2FS, for instance. ext4 isn't as bad on flash, either, with the right mount options, and btrfs (if you dare use it) has optimizations for it. I think wikipedia has more on those - there are others. It's a good option for installations, or a system drive that you can boot in an emergency. They are also cheap enough that you can use them as a system drive on a box altogether, and just replace it before/when it goes bad. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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