[Nottingham] re: FLASH vs HDD (Martin)

Martin Garton martin at stupids.org
Wed Oct 31 13:05:08 GMT 2007


> And what is the best fs for flash?
> 
> (FAT32, which is how they usually come. Any journaling-type FS can potentially brick a USB flash drive, so I'd advise against it.)

Do you have any further information to support that?  I've never heard
of such problems before.  I regularly use a journalling fs on a usb
drive, so if there might be problems I would like to understand them
fully.

-- 
Martin.

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