Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?

On 3/21/25 5:20 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
 

Anybody tried this sort of thing?

 I did a quick trial. My newish Sony Google/Android/whatsit TV ignored
the f2fs stick, my Samsung phone "helpfully" offered to format the f2fs
stick, probably to exFAT. Extra annoying as the phone uses f2fs on its
internal storage so the support is there.
 So f2fs might be nice and all but it seems, with this experiment, that I
can't think of a supported use case for an f2fs formatted USB stick or
SD card.
 Did you have some use in mind?

   If you want compatibility with 'devices' then you're
   kinda stuck with FAT32. USB sticks always come formatted
   that way, it's just "the standard". Yes, you CAN format
   a USB stick with most any system - I've got a few EXT4 -
   but they're not gonna work in my copy machine or anything.
   In any case, it's unclear why you would work a USB stick
   as long and hard as a disk drive. They're just not meant
   for that, you're kinda lucky if they work tomorrow. Get a
   USB adapter for an M.2 memory module and use that - but
   it still won't work in your TV if not FAT32.
   "Internet appliances" like some router/firewalls are a
   small Linux system under the cover and *sometimes* can
   cope with EXT3/EXT4 sticks, but never tried F2FS.