From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBcDh-0007vE-Bw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:54:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j83HoBVV028825; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:50:11 GMT Received: from smtp.bensa.ar (pc6.telecentro.com.ar [200.115.228.6] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j83HgaXk026870 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:42:37 GMT Received: from venkman.bensa.ar (venkman.bensa.ar [192.168.1.125]) by smtp.bensa.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA93A613A1; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:45:26 -0300 (ART) From: Norberto Bensa To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:45:23 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net> <20050903090018.5da1ab08@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050903090018.5da1ab08@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509031445.23607.nbensa@gmx.net> X-Archives-Salt: cd0c1255-81a6-46ea-b989-dff90d4a4abb X-Archives-Hash: 97d818924e54f257a0efb94d1d22bf1e 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list