[Sugar-devel] Good filesystem for USB flash with compression?

Luke Faraone luke at faraone.cc
Sat Aug 29 09:12:03 EDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 09:01, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> For the underlying fs I believe the best (i.e. reliable + fast +
> non-wearing) is ext4 with journaling disabled.


One of the problems we were seeing in the lab when using a overlay for user
changes was that if the students unplugged the USB device before it was
cleanly unmounted then all their data would be corrupted.

Is ext4 (with journaling disabled) resistant to these sort of problems?

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Luke Faraone
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