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#76
Originally Posted by freeman View Post
I think you could, but the modules doesn't exactly work right out of the box, not to mention no body would recommend it. ext3 is basically an ext2 w/ journal support. Well what does journal mean? It mean continuous writing to the storage. This is bad, very very bad for flash base storage.
Well if fact I did (recommend it).

here
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...08&postcount=7
and here
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...3&postcount=35

And no, it isn't that bad. This continuous writing problem is a myth. There are a bit more writes indeed for metadata journaling but not something significant.