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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:02:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:55:05 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Given FAT tends to concentrate writes in the early part of the device, a
> USB stick without any wear levelling at all would be likely to have
> extremely poor endurance and write performance. (Of course one can find
> sticks that fit that description, but generally one tries to avoid
> them...)

On the other hand, if you put one of those purpose-built Linux filesystems 
on one of these, it might work (and last) quite well.