[Wylug-help] USB memory sticks

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > In my ignorance, I asume that the filesystem on these things is standard, and
> > therefore would be equally accessible to WinXP and Linux (RH7.3+errata)
> > systems - am I correct?
>
> They are USB storage devices and so present to the system basically as a
> SCSI block device.  In general they have an MS-DOS filesystem on them.
>
> However you *can* put any filesystem you want on there (however avoid
> ones that get small areas of the device "hot" - ie many journalling
> filesystems, since the number of write operations on flash is limited,
> and writes tend to be slowish).  For interchange of data between
> disparate systems stick to MS-DOS filesystems.

But don't the flash devices themselves logically remap the writes to get
around that problem?  Or did I just hear this false magic wrong?

jh

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