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I'm creating a streaming XBMC client with one small 32GB SSD, will the journal shorten the life of my flash drive when just using XBMCbuntu? Should I opt for an ext2 instead? Or is there a way to use ext4 and switch off the Journal?

Any opinions?

I would use ext4 personally, as it has the TRIM feature. Here is a great read that should answer any questions you might have:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

Thanks, that was an excellent read.

I've decided I will stick with ext4 and use the TRIM function, I'm also going to use the noatime option so I'm not logging any access times when reading files. I'm assuming this doesn't cause any conflicts within XMBC.

Lastly as I wont be hibernating and I have 2GB of RAM I will reduce the swapiness in /etc/sysctl.conf. So hopefully swap space wont get used.

Thanks.