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   Carlos E.R. to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire   
   25 Mar 25 12:55:08   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-25 00:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:51:45 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-03-20 23:01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> But SSDs are also built on flash memory technology; do you disable   
   >>> journalling on those as well?   
   >>   
   >> No, they have wear levelling, and an expected lifetime with normal usage   
   >> patterns that is quite long.   
   >   
   > Fun fact: SSDs at a low level resemble what’s called a “log-structured”   
   > filesystem. This is what happens when you have a filesystem that is all   
   > journal, getting rid of the conventional filesystem part altogether.   
      
   Interesting.   
      
   That could be used to design a different filesystem, perhaps.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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