On 30/03/2018 10:49, Newdo wrote:
> i am thinking about installing raspbian on an ext3 formatted USB stick
> on order to get rid of the file system journaling accessing the device
> too often..

Well, a USB stick is the same sort of flash media as an SD card, so you
won't solve that problem. I use a spinning disk for my server Pi, it's a
2.5" portable disk powered by the USB port, max_usb_current=1 in
/boot/config.txt. Works well, haven't had an outage in years.

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