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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:25:51 +0100
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On 2025-03-21 10:20, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> 
>> Anybody tried this sort of thing?
> 
> I did a quick trial. My newish Sony Google/Android/whatsit TV ignored
> the f2fs stick, my Samsung phone "helpfully" offered to format the f2fs
> stick, probably to exFAT. Extra annoying as the phone uses f2fs on its
> internal storage so the support is there.
> 
> So f2fs might be nice and all but it seems, with this experiment, that I
> can't think of a supported use case for an f2fs formatted USB stick or
> SD card.
> 
> Did you have some use in mind?
> 
> 
> 

The support was removed in my distro (openSUSE) because the specs 
changed on every release of the distro, and a stick formatted one year 
would be unreadable the next year or something of the sort.

I see the sources in the kernel, but not compiled.

Telcontar:~ # grep -i f2fs /etc/filesystems
Telcontar:~ #

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.