[kwlug-disc] USB key filesystem for backups

[Kyle Spaans]

2011/8/5 Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>:
> From reading the links above, it sounds to me like if my USB key is
> not doing a good job of wear-levelling, then I could indeed be killing
> my USB key sooner by using ext3 (with its fixed journal) rather than ext2.
> Is that a true statement, or am I playing the victim card again?

Maybe, I don't know enough to answer that. But I have seen arguments
elsewhere for the use of ext2 on smaller thumb drives.

gl & hf