[Triumf-linux-managers] TRIUMF customizations to Scientific Linux distributions

[Kelvin Raywood]

Rod Nussbaumer wrote:
>>> ... Perhaps the vendor chose JFS for another good reason.

Case insensitivity ?

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling
>
> Bits in flash memory can only be written so many times before they stop
> working. The directory nodes in a normal FS like EXT2 (or, AFAIK, JFS) get a 
> hammering as the directory is rewritten every time a file is accessed.

The wiki page I pointed to in my previous response describes other good 
practices when flash disks. e.g. disable access-time updating, no swap, 
/tmp in a ramdisk, external logging, ...

Kel