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→Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust
===Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust===
===Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust===
We don't know the root cause but we have plenty of theories.
====We need a more robust files system===
Fedora uses Squashfs file structure [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS] for their live USBs. This is optimized for size not robustness.
Fedora uses Squashfs file structure [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS] for their live USBs. This is optimized for size not robustness.
A 2 GB USB is about $.60 more then a 1GB stick. If we need to compress less to get robustness its ok for us to require a 2GB USB.
A 2 GB USB is about $.60 more then a 1GB stick. If we need to compress less to get robustness its ok for us to require a 2GB USB.
====Sticks are damaged during formatting or burning==
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device]]
====Sticks are of poor quality====
Here is an explanation of two processes used to create USB sticks: http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/2008/09/08/there-are-two-type-of-usb-flash-memory-slc-and-mlc [[http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/2008/09/08/there-are-two-type-of-usb-flash-memory-slc-and-mlc]]
====Sticks are being improperly removed====
Yes they are, but its not at all clear to me that that correlates with the sticks that are failing.
===Backup and recovery====
===Backup and recovery====