From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: ReiserFS on a USB memory stick? Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:06:53 +0400 Message-ID: <3F7DACAD.4060102@namesys.com> References: <20031003122455.1faa32fa.felix.klee.reiserfs@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20031003122455.1faa32fa.felix.klee.reiserfs@gmx.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Felix E. Klee" Cc: reiserfs-list@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