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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.       >              f2fs              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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