From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:52778 "EHLO relay4-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755156Ab3CMLbG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:31:06 -0400 Message-ID: <51406375.6050502@petaramesh.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:31:01 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?U3fDom1pIFBldGFyYW1lc2g=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Noordervliet CC: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgUG91bGlu?= , linux-btrfs Subject: Re: Debian 3.7.1 BTRFS crash References: <201303131238.33692.russell@coker.com.au> <513FDE67.1050907@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le 13/03/2013 11:56, Bart Noordervliet a écrit : > USB flash drives are rubbish for any filesystem except FAT32 and then > still only gracefully accept large sequential writes. A few years ago > I thought it would be a good idea to put the root partition of a few > of my small Debian servers on USB flash, so that the harddisks could > spin down at night and I could easily prepare and switch a new > Debian-version. However, each and every USB stick got trashed within a > year I have an ARM box that runs a little Debian server (typically an advanced NAS), it uses an USB key as an ext2 root filesystem. Everything but big storage is there, and it's been up and running 24/7 for 3+ years without any USB key incident... The USB key is a cheap 1 GB Verbatim I purchased from the next drugstore ;-) -- Swâmi Petaramesh http://petaramesh.org PGP 9076E32E Ne cherchez pas : Je ne suis pas sur Facebook.