[syslinux] [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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