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   Carlos E.R. to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire   
   21 Mar 25 12:21:22   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-21 11:50, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-03-20 23:02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:04:27 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> If we could have flash sticks with SLC or MLC, my opinion might   
   >>> change then, but TLC or QLC devices are pretty sloppy pieces of   
   >>> crap. And those need static and dynamic wear leveling to give a good   
   >>> lifespan.   
   >>   
   >> Speaking of which, Linux offers one or two filesystems which are   
   >> specifically designed for use on such media, with wear-levelling built   
   >> into the storage allocation algorithms themselves.   
   >   
   >   
   > I remember one that was very promising, a four letter name that I have   
   > forgotten; but the support was removed in my distro (openSUSE) because   
   > the specs changed on every release of the distro, and a stick formatted   
   > one year would be unreadable the next year or something of the sort.   
   >   
   > It was industry designed for sticks and cards.   
   >   
      
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