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