[IDEA] Question: is there plans to use F2FS?

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(24th May, 2014 09:33 PM)Exnor Wrote:  isn't the "typical" write cycle endurance of about near 10K for every bit address ? since every write and erase count as writing how much a mass market Sandisk SD card running 24/7 on xbian will last?

my first RPI SD card A-DATA - bought Jan 2013. Running my devel RPI ever since nonstop.

if you have real concern about data, do live mirror to another device / card / partition. or boot from networked mirrored storage via NFS.

and be on-topic. IriDium remembers right. Xbian-config can do a clone (that we all know). Xbian-config can do a clone to whatever partition type (fstype) you like and XBian without any change will boot from it and work correctly.

when doing partition->partition copy you put /dev/sda1 as dest (/dev/root is predefined source - booted system). this way dest fstype will be btrfs.

when you put f2fs:/dev/sda1 it will be formatted as fsf2.

"any" type is true and is not true, currently allowed is f2fs, ext4, nfs, file.. implementing any other would mean just make xbian-config recognise for instance "ext2" as valid.

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(25th May, 2014 03:38 AM)Exnor Wrote:  Well you are right... its really nothing to worry about lol. I was just curious to see how F2FS performs and if it is really a benefit..

I elaborated few months back about that as well. There is nothing to be curious about - and it is not (benefit).

You won't see a difference. Ok, not really, f2fs and ext4 feel a bit snappier when running ssh console. Nothing else.