Homebuilt NAS: System Drive Filesystem?

[Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>]

Hi! All:

For my Homebuilt NAS [specs below], I've decided on a very small 32GB
SanDisk flash drive for the system drive to keep the 6 available SATA
II connectors free for storage drives. But I'm concerned about writes
wearing out the flash drive too soon. I don't know if it has wear
leveling built in.  Nothing in the specs about it. So, worse case, I'll
assume it doesn't.

For that reason, I thought EXT4 without journaling would work well.  No
journaling -- issues that causes aside -- would reduce writes a lot.
Then I came across F2FS which I hadn't heard of.  After some reading,
it seems the perfect filesystem for my purposes: It's more "modern" and
faster than EXT4, designed specifically for solid state devices, and
available in the Debian Repo. (I plan to use OpenMediaVault NAS
software which is Debian based.)

Opinions?  Suggestions?  Recommendations?

Thanks


B

THE BOX: ASRock 770DE+ BIOS/MBR Only MB (EFI/GPT Not Supported), AMD
Phenom II X4 CPU at 3.0GHz, 8GB DDR2 RAM (16GB Max), 6 SATA II, 1 IDE
(Master and Slave) -- IDE DVD Writer on Master, 1 Floppy connector, but
no floppy drive, 6 USB 2.0/1.0, 1GB ethernet