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Old 04-25-2010, 03:14 PM   #58
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flash RAM has a finite service life, unfortunately

A buddy of mine, new to linux, was blowing through 8GB cards he was using to share movies with. I did a bit of research into his problem, and found the following info succinctly describes the issues he was having:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux...1591196c0ae15e

In short, filesystems that require the 'sync' option, which as I understand is any FS that supports journalling, will wear out flash RAM noticeably quicker. My buddy was using NTFS on his card; I haven't tested ext[3,4], reiserfs, xfs, etc nor do I have any realworld experience with them.

Hope this helps!
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