Ext4 on Flash drives

Wow, look at this article:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7208/1/

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ext4 and partitioning
Username: Bert
That looks very convincing. There's also a follow-up article: [url=http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7218/1/]What's The Fastest Partition Scheme On Cheap Flash Media? Thanks for sharing this.

grub4dos ext4 support
Username: shinobar
"Try new version of Grub4DosConfig for ext4. [b]grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.6.0.pet[/b] http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697 Supports ntfs, vfat, ext2, ext3, ext4 by standalone. Need not grub legacy anymore.

ext2 better?
Username: PaulBx1
"That is very interesting. I may have to play with ext4. Can we have ext4 as the filesystem within the pupsave and within a truecrypt volume too? I wonder if there is a speedup there too. I was reading somewhere that ext2 is better for flash drives, because since it is non-journaling there are fewer actual writes, making the drive last longer.

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