From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 09:00:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050903090018.5da1ab08@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net>
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it
> > like a hard drive will kill it in no time.
> Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW
> discs in favor of pendrives (1GB)
more like three months if you put a frequently written directory,
like /tmp or /var/log, on a flash device. Unless you use a filesystem
like JFFS2 that evens the writes over the whole disks, a few months of
logfile updates can easily kill a portion of a drive.
BTW you have PGP signed your email but your key doesn't appears to be on
the keyservers.
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Neil Bothwick
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-02 23:06 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Michael Crute
2005-09-02 23:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 0:59 ` Michael Crute
2005-09-03 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 1:21 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-03 8:00 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-09-03 17:45 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-03 18:02 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-09-04 9:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-04 17:11 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-04 18:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 8:09 ` Rumen Yotov
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