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

[Lucian Branescu]

USB flash drives have controllers that do wear-leveling. They try
really hard to make them look like hard drives. JFFS2 works on raw
flash, so it's not useful.

Basically any FS that works on all the OSes you need. ext2 is a good
option. NTFS might be, but it's fiddly.

I've tried to get a UDF filesystem on a flash once, since UDF is
supported on any OS, but I didn't get too far. Also, windows doesn't
seem to have support for the 'hard-drive' UDF profile.

2009/7/7 Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc>:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed a problem when attempting to unsquash the SoaS filesystem and extract it on to a flashdrive: it's over 1.2GiB.
>
> Since squashfs is read-only, is there a good read-write filesystem that achieves decent compression (while not carrying too steep a speed penalty on older systems) that is reasonable to use on a USB flash drive?
>
> JFFS2 won't work, from what I've heard. Are there any other well-developed alternatives?
>
> --
> Luke Faraone
> http://luke.faraone.cc
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