questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Liam Proven]

On 20 June 2017 at 22:17, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> Would you say that one should not use a journaling file system on a
> solid-state drive, for that reason?


Well, to be honest, I do. My Ubuntu root & home partitions are ext4,
because I copied them from my previous machine's spinning-rust HD.

But if I was doing a new install, I'd consider it. SSDs are a lot more
expensive than HDs, though, and use higher-quality parts with a much
longer working life. Soon, newer non-volatile media such as Intel 3D
XPoint are coming, which will make it somewhat moot.

Some Linux old hands contest my choice on the basis that ext2 is very
old code and not much maintained, and recommend ext3 or ext4 with the
FS parameters hand-tuned to disable journalling. This is, to be
honest, too much work for me.

I'll also not that I use ext2 exclusively inside VMs as well.


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