[Gllug] Two Queries

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:25:26PM +0100, Christopher Currie wrote:
> 2. Is there any evidence that ReiserFS imposes more physical wear
> and tear on hard drives than other filesystems? Have any tests been
> done on the comparative durability of different filesystems in this
> respect? Are there a priori grounds for expecting the filesystem
> design to be irrelevant? (It was relevant for the old floppy-based
> OSs in the 80s, but the question reveals my ignorance of modern
> ones).

JFFS is designed to reduce "wear" on flash drives.

http://handhelds.org/z/wiki/JFFS

Rich.

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