best fs for usb flash?

[James McNeill]

vfat stores the allocation tables at the beginning of the drive. The system
area of the file system would ware out long before the rest of the drive.

Journaling filesystems would also generate unnecessary I/O. Minix fs isn't
perfect, but it's simple and well supported.

 -James

 | On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:29:44PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
 | > Hi guys,
 | >
 | > What fs would you recommend for a system on a usb flash and why?
 |
 | A filesystem that does not use atime, such as vfat is good. Due to the
 | limited number of writes you can do to usb flash devices atime would
 really
 | mess them up. (there are some other considerations AFAIR but I forget
what
 | exactly)
 |
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