[OT?] File system recommendation for SD cards

[Wolfgang Mües]

Hello Albrecht,

Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 12:15 schrieb Albrecht Dreß:
> After reading a Sandisk whitepaper about wear levelling [1] I thought
> about using a standard vfat file system on it (mainly to have the
> ability to remove the sd card and to read it on a Winbloze pc).
> However, I read a report that using a sync vfat fs could lead to fast
> corruption of the SD card [2].

Why don't you use async vfat (standard up to 2.6.13(?)), because vfat has
not implemented the sync option until then.

I've had no problems with it - dirty data is written to sd very fast.

regards
Wolfgang

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