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====== Flash Friendly File System (F2FS) ======

For Pis like Raspberry-Pi, OrangePi or other models, which boot from micro-SD card, i would recommend F2FS to increase its lifetime.

But, in general, an F2FS formatted micro-SD with an USB-adapter is to be preferred over USB-memory-sticks:\\
i couldn't find one single USB-memory-stick with any specifications. for SD-cards, you can find models with different specs. Thus, you can find good models to achieve higher endurance.

The difference was/is observable with [[fmlist_scanner:start|FMList Scanner]]:\\
the scanner writes the scan results of a few kiloBytes approximately every 4 to 6 minutes.\\
USB-memory sticks showed defects every few months.\\
A friend is now running the same SD-card with F2FS for over 2 years.


Here, links to some articles:

  * Changing the Raspberry Pi image filesystem to F2FS
    * https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~dullaart/programming/raspberrypi/2022/01/12/raspi-f2fs-image.html
  * [HOWTO] F2FS
    * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=47769
  * Optimizing SD cards longevity
    * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=327484
  * microSD Endurance (TBW) and Monitoring
    * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=317568
  * SD card corruption after one year with daily hard resets
    * https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=317845
  * cvt2f2fs
    * https://github.com/mstormi/openhabian-zram/tree/master/cvt2f2fs