===Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust===
===Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust===
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Fedora uses Squashfs file structure [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS] for their live USBs. This is optimized for size not robustness. Indeed its described as Read Only. Are we really storing all our user data in a read-only file structure?
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Fedora uses Squashfs file structure [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS] for their live USBs. This is optimized for size not robustness.
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OpenSuse uses a different file structure.
OpenSuse uses a different file structure.
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Also see Ticket 907 [[http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/907]]
Also see Ticket 907 [[http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/907]]
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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.