Re: ReiserFS on a USB memory stick?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Felix E. Klee wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I want to run LINUX on a 512MB USB memory stick that supports a minimum
>of 100,000 rewrites. I'll mostly be running an EMACS session with
>Preview-Latex where I'll be editing and compiling TeX files. Note that I
>don't care if the stick fails after 3 months, but it should last about
>that long.
>
>Is ReiserFS a suitable file system for that kind of application or are
>there better systems? Are there some ways to tune caching so that data
>isn't written to the stick as often as it could?
>
>BTW, I already found JFFS2 but it seems to be made for direct access to
>flash hardware, while a USB memory stick emulates a hard disk or floppy
>super drive.
>
>Felix
>
>  
>
Compact flash does wear leveling in hardware, I don't know about memory 
sticks.  If people use the FAT filesystem on them, then almost surely  
they do also.;-)

If there is wear leveling, reiserfs will work.  You might want to reduce 
the journal size a bit though.

-- 
Hans