questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:56:18 +0200, Xen wrote:
>People recommend the "noatime" mount option to reduce metadata updates 
>to SSDs. All SSDs are subject to wear.

That's idiotic. It's like buying a car and to park it, to avoid the
side effects of driving. I'm using my SSD and if I've got a car, I'm
using it, too.

Back to the original question, independent of wearing, journaling makes
no sense for USB sticks. That's an odd idea, you also wouldn't think
about an USB stick RAID. Would you?

I'm not sure if "sherd" works for USB sticks, even when using a file
system without journaling, but if it should work, then just for a fle
system without journaling.

The purpose of USB sticks is completely different to media such as HDDs
or SSDs.

Apart from durability, an USB stick it something to take with you in
your pocket, so encryption, shred alike deletion, costs and especially
portabillity are more important than tricky permissions to "backup"
data.

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