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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:06:01 +0000
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On 21/03/2025 11:31, c186282 wrote:
> "Internet appliances" like some router/firewalls are a
>    small Linux system under the cover and *sometimes* can
>    cope with EXT3/EXT4 sticks, but never tried F2FS.

My home Pi's run off SD cards but never in normal use write to them AT ALL.
There is a series of configuration you can do that moves logging to 
RAMdisk and any temporary files to RAMdisk as well - and you turn swap off.

For small applications that is a perfect way to have access to Linux, 
but not go to the expense of a proper SSD

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.
-- Yogi Berra