[TriLUG] Flash Friendly Filesystems: was e2fsck under cron gets retcode=8 operational error

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:29:12 -0400, Joseph S. Tate said:

> Why are you using ext2/3/4 on a thumb drive instead of a FS built for
> flash storage so that you get error detection and correction as a
> feature of the FS instead of having to kludge this whole convoluted
> thing together?

Hey Joseph,

I never knew there was such a filesystem. I've used ext4 on flash
drives because it gives me a lot less problems than the Windows
filesystem that comes on thumb drives.

What are some good filesystems to put on flash drives?

Thanks

SteveT

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