[syslinux] [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun Aug 30 23:24:09 PDT 2009
On 08/30/2009 06:33 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Sun, 30-08-2009 a las 20:12 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard escribió:
>
>> Yes, the name of the tool is misleading: It works with other fs types
>> too - its main purpose it partitioning, not fs formatting. I
>> succesfully booted USB sticks formatted as ext2 (as far as I recall - I
>> last worked with it a year ago).
>
> On a side note, which filesystem should be chosen in order to minimize
> wearing to USB sticks?
>
> I would assume that the any DOS filesystem will continouously rewrite to
> the FAT blocks. Maybe the best choice would be ext4 with the journal
> disabled?
>
FAT blocks would be continually rewritten only if filesizes are changed,
and the same is true, by and large for any other conventional
filesystem. A pure log-structured filesystem has ideal wear
characteristics, but may have performance problems.
In theory, btrfs can do really well on SSDs.
-hpa
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