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From: Norberto Bensa <nbensa@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:45:23 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509031445.23607.nbensa@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050903090018.5da1ab08@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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. 

You can use UNIONFS for those ;)
Anyway, unless we're talking about different technologies, one of my USB 
drives is working fine and it is more than a year old. And I've used it like 
crazy (both read _and_ writes.)


> BTW you have PGP signed your email but your key doesn't appears to be on
> the keyservers.

Oops. The signature was supposed to be used for private mail messages only. I 
don't trust keyservers. 

My apologies to everyone! 


Regards,
-- 
Norberto Bensa
4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-03 17:54 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
2005-09-03 17:45       ` Norberto Bensa [this message]
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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